Chumbawamba

"I'm not so brave, and I'm not so crazy And I'd rather be a coward than pushing up daisies."

"Nothing ever burns down by itself; Every fire needs a little bit of help."

"Smoother words, nicer suits — don't be fooled, they're still wearing jackboots! The words get tired when you hear them every day! The Nazis changed, but they never went away!"

"Alcohol, testosterone, and ignorance and fists"

"Beware the Holy Trinity: Church and State and Law"

"In a world full of no ones I am a someone."

"So if you meet with these historians, I'll tell you what to say: Tell them that the Nazis never really went away."

"I get knocked down But I get up again, You're never gonna keep me down."

"We live for words and die for words, Principles we can't afford."

"If any ask us why we died We tell them that our leaders lied Sold us out down the riverside Whose side are you on?"

"You see me You hear me There are millions Think just like me"

"This is tearoom England. They'll kick your face in so politely."

"Out with the old, cheated by the new."

"Where do you want to go today? Somewhere you can never take me."

"Send this song to twenty people. Add your name, don't break the cycle. Pass it along, by word of mouse. Save the world, don't leave the house."

"and mean nothing to me: You'll buy your friends, but I'll hate you for free."

"By the time we got to Woodstock It was going up in flame In June, under the silvery moon, Why do all your songs turn out the same?"

"We've got that old-time religion Where we still won't cross the picket line You've got on your side, But I've got on mine."

"It's a long walk to the gallows It's a small step to swing free Crying in the tower for my conspirators and me Gunpowder and modem and a dream of liberty."

"in the way we talk, in the way we walk."

"There are those paying fancy prices To pretend they have fancy lives But at every charity banquet The majority stay outside."

"That stuff inside your houses and that stuff behind your eyes."

"The people at the top have further to fall."

"I was taught by , but I blame it on ."

"Say 'amen', and shoot to kill."

"Look at the small print: it's what we agreed Sign your name before we teach you how to read."

"Take the train, A last goodbye, Throw your rhymes at passers-by"

"Back in Leeds, The news we heard No-one killed, And no-one hurt Wish all the young men used only words."

", but she's pretty much obsolete."

"[W]e’ll be remembered as a footnote; the band who chucked water over ; the band who had a hit with . And I’m happy with that, to be honest. Of course we’d like to be remembered as being part of British culture, as having played a part in talking about the changing world around us. But let’s face it, [the] Falling over song will win in the end."

"In general, ‘reverent’ is not an adjective to be applied to Chumbawamba."

"[W]ithin the band, we’d all still have to hold tight to the rigging and make sure we were still heading in the same direction, make sure we were doing what we wanted to do together. And enjoying it! Because all this talk of Pitching in and Taking Advantage makes it sound like no fun, like Mao-suited Communists chirping the Party Line. Chumbawamba (despite what a lot of people might think) was never like that. We were too busy laughing to not have fun."

"We had been making music for 15 years so nothing fazed us. We supported Aerosmith and their show was full of bombast and laser effects and we knew we couldn’t compete. So we gathered round one microphone and sang an a cappella song about fascism."

"If you see us [perform] live, you know we have a sense of humor because we're just not cool. We wear stupid costumes. It's not dignified. It's more Liza Minnelli than ."

"The way we exist isn't to be a shining example for the world. All the 10-point plans in the world don't change the fact that ultimately we do this because it makes us feel euphoric."

"Our deepest sympathies go out to the families of all Margaret Thatcher's victims."

"Nigel Farage is an arse. His party is made up of bigots and its policies are racist."

"We'd be much less likely to object to MP3 than to a bootlegger because selling records without our permission is vastly different to people having access to our stuff for free."

"And have you ever noticed how it's never poor or working class people who object to someone else making a living from work?"