Rick Allen Quotes
This was when we started taking it seriously, and found out about what hard, hard work really was. Mutt Lange at the helm at Battery studios in Willesden, London. Our first venture into video promo saw us featured on a new channel in America called MTV. The song from the album was "Bringin' on the Heartbreak". This album was slow to take off but a year after it's release it started to make waves in the U.S. Thanks to "Bringin'" on the MTV. The record is a favorite of mine.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.
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I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
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I have a relatively good track record.
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I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
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Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.
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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
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When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
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I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.
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I'm a huge Gaga fan. I have been since I was a kid. I actually camped out overnight to see Gaga when I was 17 years old in London.
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This time around was different. Daron brought a song in and we had to record it the next day. I just wasn't about it and I didn't do it perfectly. It took some time, or I wanted to play it a different way and the song had not been developed yet. I had to get it. It was more work-oriented and less about a vibe and art.
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Certainly our records could be found in most of the mom and pop indie stores, but we still found there were a lot of major stores that weren't on the tip of knowing what was happening and weren't stocking our records as readily as they were stocking, you know, Guns 'n' Roses or Billy Joel or whatever the hell. That certainly changed, and it changed rapidly after Nirvana's rise, that's for sure.
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
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As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.
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This was when we started taking it seriously, and found out about what hard, hard work really was. Mutt Lange at the helm at Battery studios in Willesden, London. Our first venture into video promo saw us featured on a new channel in America called MTV. The song from the album was "Bringin' on the Heartbreak". This album was slow to take off but a year after it's release it started to make waves in the U.S. Thanks to "Bringin'" on the MTV. The record is a favorite of mine.
