Quotes by Neil Tennant - Page 1

I think the world should be one community.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Community
Thinking
World
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Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Ambition
Theatrical
Chris
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I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money
Neil Tennant / Musician
Brain
Looks
Lots Of Money
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She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Character
Charismatic
Play
Together
Holds
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The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Clubs
Gay
Heaven
Night
Nights
Mixed
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We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Musical
Musical Theater
Pop Music
Theater
Would Be
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You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Celebrate
Should
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I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Ghetto
People
Thinking
Element
Fair
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I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Mustache
Shirts
Want
Everyone
Did
Checked
Wear
Shirt
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I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Britain
Ecstasy
Long
Long Way
Thinking
Way
Big Thing
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It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Pet
Boys
Our World
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We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Decided
Insane
Musical
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When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Gay
Late
Scared
Want
Younger
Sexual
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The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Army
Crime
Desert
Indulge
London
Song
Two
Escape
Soldiers
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We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Change
Rock Music
Rocks
Spring
Album
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We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Choices
Performers
Sexuality
Variety
Variety Of Music
Cultural
Main
Restricted
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Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Issues
Oppression
Rational
Sex
Talking
Culture World People
Issue
Speaking
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When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Concerts
Rock Concerts
Theatrical
Traditional
Collaborations
Designers
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I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Becoming
Essence
Messages
Uneasy
Life Love Always
Be True
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A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Gay
Mainstream
Moving
Sex
Camp
Speaking
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At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Musical
Musical Theater
One Time
Song
Theater
Way
Particularly
Linking
Pop Songs
Several
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She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Success
Addict
Europe
Lost Everything
Smack
Big Success
Contract
Recording
Sign
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There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Conditions
Dave
Groups
Audition
Maintain
Offered
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For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Brighton
Chasing
Decided
Musical
Graham
Jonathan
Scratch
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It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Developing
Encore
Live Shows
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They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Agendas
Careers
Music Industry
Performers
Pursued
Traditional
Instincts
Followed
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There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Paradox
People
Satisfaction
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He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Daughter
Affair
Claims
Dave
London
Staff
Bar
Believes
Club
Manager
Meets
Nightclub
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We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Ghetto
Hate
Moving
Orientation
Real
Define
Sexual
Issue
Restricted
Toward
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To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.
Neil Tennant / Musician
Celebration
Individuality
Issues
Sexuality
Should Have
Box
Certain Extent
Extent
Invent
Issue
Reinvent
Tour
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