Sparks Quotes by Russell Mael

10 Sparks quotes by Russell Mael

Russell Mael’s take on sparks flickers across ten short passages, each a tiny flash of his creative spark. It’s a compact collection that lets you feel the energy he attributes to those fleeting moments.

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There's a lot of bombast in Sparks' music.

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Well, we've made 25 albums as Sparks, so at a certain point you want to find new ways to challenge yourself.

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We've always believed action speaks louder than words. I think that's helped maintain a certain aura about Sparks. People only really know…

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We thought of a boring name, Sparks, and put a boring photo of us on the front of the second album, 'A…

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A lot of the people who like Sparks, they feel like it's this well-kept secret that they're part of.

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I sing and Ron doesn't want to be the singer of the band, he's the keyboard player and predominant writer of the…

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We don't ever consider there's any sort of limitations to how we present what we're doing. That keeps things fluid and interesting,…

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I like when somebody is able to create their own universe, have a consistency to it and not break from character -…

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There are still some people - it's hard to believe - that aren't aware yet of Sparks. So we still kind of…

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Being overtly political just seems, for us, too easy of a target to be doing. We like to channel our creativity in…

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There are all these safety nets in pop music.

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Occasionally and all-too-infrequently a song comes along that jolts you and you prick up your ears.

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The unfortunate thing with COVID is that Ron's been working separately from me, but it hasn't stopped the flow of things.

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I sing and Ron doesn't want to be the singer of the band, he's the keyboard player and predominant writer of the band. There's…

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We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did mostly complicated,…

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A lot of people build up a backlog of songs and you can kind of go, 'Let's explore that song we did six years…

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I like when somebody is able to create their own universe, have a consistency to it and not break from character - that's something…

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There are still some people - it's hard to believe - that aren't aware yet of Sparks. So we still kind of go at…

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There was nothing radically different about what we were doing musically or image-wise, and yet in L.A. there'd been total indifference, so to come…

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Having an image was really important to us and that was kind of contrary to the bands in L.A. that we had grown up…

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As long as it elicits some kind of thought on the listener's part, that's good. If no one's paying attention to the lyrics it's…

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Bands can get lazy after 20 albums. But that's not us.

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We'd been approached various times during our career about a documentary, but we always hesitated to say yes, because what we do musically speaks…

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A lot of times people ask about Sparks songs: are they autobiographical in a way? And we don't think so much that they are;…

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Yeah, we've been offered lots of advice over the years about not moving on from something that is successful, but it's just in our…

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