Chumbawamba Quotations

Quotes from Chumbawamba and its members.

"There was a woman on the radio the other day who had wrote a book about how difficult it was in meetings once you're a working mother. She was like 'Oh, You have baby sick on your business suit'. Most people don't have a bloody business suit!!!" —Alice Nutter
"There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had the Trafalgar Square riots that the Poll Tax went out in Britain. When people take to the streets and fight the police, it's the one thing the government can't control. You can march round in circles for the rest of your life and they can ignore it, but once you start damaging property and fighting with the police, they can't. Even though they tar you with a brush and say you're a set of bastards, they have to actually tone down what they are doing." —Alice Nutter
"We hate the record industry, I think it stinks, it sucks. But at the same time we realise that we are part of that, and sometime we do have to compromise. But that's OK as long as we feel good with it ourselves. There's some things that we wouldn't do. They got really cheesed off not so long back, cause when we did Homophobia they didn't even hear a tape of it. We took it down and got it cut and everything, and they couldn't say anything, but you could tell that they were a bit peeved really, that they didn't get to hear it, you know... and that's funny too you know... we're in a powerful position with One Little Indian, and it feels quite good." —Harry
"Whether people love us or hate us, I would want them to think, 'They were a bit different, and they tried to do something that was a bit different, and they tried to cause a bit of a fuss, and they got into trouble. And they were anarchists.' Which is quite important - the fact that the word 'anarchist' is appearing in so many different places. That's great." —Dunstan Bruce
"We did the Rosie O'Donnell Show the other week, and that was great, because they kept on having big discussions about what is anarchism. And it wasn't any sort of in-depth, philosophical thing or anything, but it was just the fact that that word was there on the Rosie O'Donnell Show and they were discussing it. I just think that's great, if they're popularizing that word. That's brilliant." —Dunstan Bruce