Best Shane MacGowan quotes

**Mon May 29, 2006 9:27 am**

The Pogues did an Elvis song (Whole lotta lovin?) on an NME freebie in the 80's. On the inner sleeve of the tape box there were interviews of the performers about Elvis and someone asked shane if he had ever rhumba'd in the back of a sports car.

He replied : "No, but I've thrown up in the back of a Transit."

I laughed for a week.

**Mon May 29, 2006 7:21 pm**

Plastic Paddy wrote:The Pogues did an Elvis song (Whole lotta lovin?) on an NME freebie in the 80's. On the inner sleeve of the tape box there were interviews of the performers about Elvis and someone asked shane if he had ever rhumba'd in the back of a sports car.

He replied : "No, but I've thrown up in the back of a Transit."

I laughed for a week.

That one was good. All the qutoes can be read here
http://www.ktv.no/~oyl-ktv/temptation%20of%20elvis.htm

**Mon May 29, 2006 10:55 pm**

"There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination."

**Tue May 30, 2006 5:03 pm**

Maija wrote:
Eric V wrote:Shane addressed the crowd at the 9:30 Club on 9 March 2006 about four songs in, with a glorious "Shut Up!"..... I thought that was pretty special because he was speaking to me. I have shut up ever since. Amazing.

If you ask him very very politely (in a not-giving-a-fuck-about-the-rules sort of way), Mr C might tell you to stop typing too :p

I don't get it. :oops:

**Wed May 31, 2006 2:57 am**

i like what shane thinks about drinking
i feel the same way about drugs and alcohol
it's about self discovery,
it has nothing to do with what it does to you on the outside
it's what it does to you on the inside

**Wed May 31, 2006 8:37 pm**

Benno wrote:i feel the same way about drugs and alcohol
it's about self discovery,
it has nothing to do with what it does to you on the outside
it's what it does to you on the inside

What, like destoying your liver? Or causing mental illness? I think I'll pass on that one, thanks.

**Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:56 am**

nah those are outside effects as well
it's what it does for ones spirit

**Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:40 am**

Anxiety and Obsession...

**Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:01 am**

Michaelo wrote:
Benno wrote:i feel the same way about drugs and alcohol
it's about self discovery,
it has nothing to do with what it does to you on the outside
it's what it does to you on the inside

What, like destoying your liver? Or causing mental illness? I think I'll pass on that one, thanks.

you should try it out michaelo, its fun at times

**Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:21 pm**

when you drink you can think about all the people who came before you
all of your ancestors who also had their tots 'o grog
and through that you can start to realte to them
and start to place yourself in terms of the history of people
and not the history of the "isms" they teach in school

**Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:04 pm**

Noel Kenny wrote:Back around 1992, I met Shane for a drink in Joe Corcoran's snug. we were having a quiet jar when some asshole stuck his head in from the bar and asked Shane to sing a song. Shane said "Not now, maybe later." This went on for about a half an hour and we were getting pissed off as we hadn't met for a while and had a few things to talk about.

Shane: "What do you do for a living?"

Asshole: "I'm a carpenter"

Shane: "Make me a fucking table"

Reminds me of Dylan's response to George Harrison concerning the Concert for Bangladesh. George wanted Dylan to
play the benefit for Bangladesh concert. George asked Dylan to play his
early stuff like "Blowin'In the Wind". Dylan, not too pleased came
back with this quick retort: "You gonna play 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand'"?

**Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:21 pm**

Niall wrote:
Michaelo wrote:
Benno wrote:i feel the same way about drugs and alcohol
it's about self discovery,
it has nothing to do with what it does to you on the outside
it's what it does to you on the inside

What, like destoying your liver? Or causing mental illness? I think I'll pass on that one, thanks.

you should try it out michaelo, its fun at times

I do drink, and I usually have a good time when I do, but not for any journey of "self discovery", as Benno calls it. Getting drunk once in a while is fair enough in my book, but it's not something I'd do more than once a week. As for drugs, I've never tried any and have no interest in them at all. I've seen too many people who've ruined their lives with drugs or excessive drinking. I think one of the biggest myths is that cannabis is safe. I've met a number of people who have mental problems as a result of using it. I'm not saying it happens to everyone that uses cannabis, just that it does happen.

**Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:03 pm**

Well, that may be true, but think about the amount of people who use alcohol that you know and have mental problems. :wink:

As far as I am concerned booze, fags and weed are on a par. It's all just politics. A drug is a drug, I am not preaching and not calling any substance "good" or "bad". All I'm saying is the drugs you have been forced to accept as part of a social event or acceptable lifestyle may not be any better for you than others.

**Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:27 am**

The truth is that too much of anything is bad for you......

now excuse me, I'm off to have a wank.

**Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:42 am**

"The only reason I liked the Sex Pistols was because Johnny Rotten was so obviously fucking Irish and wrote such anti English songs."

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