“We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. And they're still the biggest band in the world, so we failed. We didn't really do anything, people wore flares for a year or two, d'you know what I mean? That's all we did.”

— Interview by Lindsay Baker, "The Unsinkable Ian Brown", The Guardian, 2 February 2002, retrieved 2011-08-13

“We broke up mostly because we didn't have a manager and everyone was on different drugs. I don't take them so it was a bit weird for me.”

— "Ex-Stone Roses vocalist produces 1st solo album", The Vindicator, 5 September 1998, retrieved 2011-08-14

“It ain't the size of the dog in the fight, It's the size of the fight in the dog on the day or the night”

— Ian Brown, "Illegal attacks " (song, with lyrics) [The origin of this saying is unclear: see https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#Misattributed]