Tony Wilson

“When forced to choose between the truth and the legend, print the legend.”

“This is Manchester, we do things differently here.”

“Some people make money and some people make history.”

“I'm a minor player in my own life story.”

“Factory Records is not a business. It's a human experiment.”

“We made history, not money.”

“Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. I think.”

“Ambition is a terrible thing to waste.”

“I am not a Svengali. I am a catalyst.”

“He was a hero of mine, and I was his sidekick.”

“The whole of Manchester is part of my Paisley-patterned brain.”

“Most of all, I loveManchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not the clubs. But the chemical rush of a city on the crest of a wave.”