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 go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.
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I find it odd seeing a DJ playing to huge audiences. I know that people have been doing it for a while, but the fact that it's been embraced so much in America now and it's become like this new, big thing, I find it slightly odd.
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I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.
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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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Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.
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I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
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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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L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking onstage at Madison Square Garden.
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I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'
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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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When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.
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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.
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The thing about Depeche songs is that they’re so descriptive. For me, they tell some kind of story about a character who’s trying to redeem himself or to find something to believe in-some kind of faith or hope.
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It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.
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God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
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There's that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there's the other side of me that's just a dirty animal. If I don't let that out, I go nuts.
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I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.
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It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl.
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There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.
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The only things we have to worry about are really stupid things.
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To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.
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I didn't write songs for a very long time.
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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.