Depeche Mode Quotes
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If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.
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If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.
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More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.
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There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.
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I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.
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Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
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As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.
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Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.
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I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.
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There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.
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The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've learned is that it's not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else's.
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I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that.
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Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
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People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
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Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
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I'm happy to say that my knowledge about Basildon is rather limited, particularly I was there only about three times. All my visits there were with DM and at a time within the early days when I was very interested in photography and always carried a shoulder bag with camera equipment around with me. My most insistent memory of Basildon is to sit in a disgusting pub and to get told I better shouldn't cross my legs and should hide the shoulder bag because otherwise I could be beaten up because someone might think I was a poof.
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I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.
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You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.
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I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.
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It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.
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I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong.
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I loathe the idea of going onstage in a T-shirt and jeans.
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Martin's the songwriter, Alan's the good musician, Dave's the vocalist... and I bum around.
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If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to tell you every member. But I couldn't name a single member of Arctic Monkeys.