Andy Taylor Quotes

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• If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming…
• Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.
• The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.
• We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.
• We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.
• From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and…
• I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a…
• Music is escapism, it's entertainment.
• Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.
• The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.
• This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay…
• Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a…
• To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the…
• We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing.
• We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done…
• We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we…
• We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good…
• When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don't have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there…
• When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways…
• When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But…

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