Nigel Pulsford Quotes
The problem in America is, the 'alternative' scene isn't alternative anymore. It's just all these metal bands who cut off their fucking hair. I mean, Live is a really stodgy old rock group. We don't feel comfortable being lumped in with a scene like that.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.
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I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there's no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band.
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Come one, come all! This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I.
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Rock Hudson was on his deathbed, going, 'It was that last fucking dick... god DAMN it, why did I suck it, WHY DID I SUCK IT!?!? I was ahead of the game, Mister! Million of dicks, never had a problem before-dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck; dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck. Never had a problem-IT WAS THAT LAST GODDAMN DICK!!!'
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When I grow too old and dull to rock 'n rollLike to hold on tight to you darlingAnd when my fires have all burned outI'd like to think I can still think aboutThe things I used to sing aboutWhen I was spending all my time aloneBy myself and on my ownSeldom seen and quite unknown.
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I would have loved to have been on the Band Aid record but I only heard about it when I was in Germany. I don’t know if they would have had me on the record anyway, because I’m a bit old. I’m just an old slag who gets up every morning, scratches his head and wonders what he wants to fuck.
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I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.
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One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star.
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I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.
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It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.
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I am in a band that was born on the Internet.
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I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
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Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.
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We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.
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I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.
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The problem in America is, the 'alternative' scene isn't alternative anymore. It's just all these metal bands who cut off their fucking hair. I mean, Live is a really stodgy old rock group. We don't feel comfortable being lumped in with a scene like that.
