Quotes by Andy Taylor - Page 1

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.
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Entertainment
Escapism
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Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.
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Relate
Melodic
People Always Been
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We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing.
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Greatest Hits
Hits
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You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.
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Aspect
Stability
Commercial
Operation
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The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.
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Consume
Great Thing
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The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.
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Bunch
Any Other Way
Exist
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We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.
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Corner
Duran
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The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
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Life Opportunity Your
Duran
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We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.
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Focused
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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 drink. We used to stick to that religiously.
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Pm
Stick
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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 would be selling people short.
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Cool People
Selling
Huge Audience
Sold
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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.
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Expecting
Bite
Different People
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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 fun on the road and it still is.
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Good Fun
Over It
Physically
Good Always Yourself
Beat
Good Long Yourself
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You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.
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God Help
Pace
Suppose
Sit
Vicar
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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 set and it goes down really well.
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Bunch
Motivated
Bringing
Set
Goes
Material
New Material
Old Songs
Passively
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I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!
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Lonely
Solo
Discovered
Rod
Solo Artist
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It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
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Band
Generous
Mind Blowing
Tickets
Great Your People
Great People Your
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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 you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.
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Music Look People
Touch
Label
Record Label
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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 management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.
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Labels
Management
Duran
Sell
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When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.
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Something New
Future Together Past
Background
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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 there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.
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Labels
Records
Screwed Up
Shoulder
Sign
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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 to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.
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Stones
Love Your People
Cherry
Definitive
Love Looking People
Pick
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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 and play. And there's usually someone there to help you do that!
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Pure
Adrenalin
Younger
Aside
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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 far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.
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Cry
Horrible
Music Today People
Record Deal
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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 an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.
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Bunch
Conscious
Revival
People New Real
Done People New
Exist
Material
New Material
Real Reason
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