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"There are too many bands committing themselves to music who don’t know the first or last thing about it, and therefore should not be mentioned in the same sentence as the Hives and music, unless it refers to separate the good from the bad." -Howlin' Pelle Almqvist
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"You do everything you weren't allowed to do
in school. Jumping up and down, screaming,
annoying people, and people love you for it." -Pelle Almqvist on performing (Rolling Stone)
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"So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap." -Howlin' Pelle Almqvist in Rolling Stone magazine (July 2002)
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"Forget about The Strokes and The White Stripes, this is what the new breed really say." -MOJO
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"They make The Strokes sound like The Eagles!" -The Independent
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"The (Rolling) Stones for a new generation!" -Time Out
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"It's either this or Coldplay." -NME
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"The Hives are the number 1 band to see before you die." -Q
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