John Peel

“All I ever wanted to do was to play records that I liked, in the hope that other people would like them too.”

“I never made a distinction between 'high' and 'low' art. It was all just stuff that I liked.”

“Teenage dreams, so hard to beat.”

“I've always been an outsider, and that's how I like it.”

“I'd like to be remembered as the person who beat everybody else to the punch.”

“I always imagine that I'm in a car with a girl and I'm trying to impress her.”

“Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, 'Listen, mate, life has surface noise.'”

“At the end of the day, it's just a bloke playing records.”

“I just want to hear something I haven't heard before.”

“It's not the fall that kills you, it's the landing.”

“The only real currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”