Dave Gahan Quotes
I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.
Quotes to Explore
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We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
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I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.
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One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.
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Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.
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I was a tennis player in high school and college.
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I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do.
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I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.
