Def Leppard Quotes
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Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.
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I'm sure it's the same with yourself that when your relationship is good, it changes the way you view the rest of the world.
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I'm sure it appeared on the surface that I jumped from band to band for the sake of my career, but that's never been my intent. My whole desire in my career was to be in one band.
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Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.
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My first concert was pretty memorable - Deep Purple at 14. I had a really good childhood, I got along with my parents. I never rebelled. Pretty much all of it was cool. I wouldn't change any of it.
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The day anyone in the band can't pour his own drinks is when we end up in a nursing home.
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I still have people saying to me, 'Oh, you're still together?' They don't realize Leppard's been around this whole time, because people just don't get to hear us.
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We've always been a prolific band. Writing good songs has never been a problem.
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I like working hard and achieving things, so determined, independent, and a nice guy.
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They called us 'bludgeon riffola' - it was a complete slag off. So just to show that we didn't really care we picked up on the phrase and used it for the record label.
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The difficulty with all of these things comes around economics and how much of what you see as your baby you are willing to give up to be part of something.
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If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
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Sometimes it's a negative because I still have a memory of some of the things I could do... when I still had two arms.
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The groupie situation has been dead for years. We've never really been that big in actually getting involved. I'd say with us, the groupie thing was much more voyeuristic.
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The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.
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There's room for everybody - it's not the Olympics. I'd like to be on top, but if the album's successful, that's good enough.
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You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.
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Still waiting, although the last night of the Hysteria shed tour with the guys from Europe was hiliarious.
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That's the great thing about the future - nobody knows what's going to happen. That's what makes it all exciting.
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I love watching sports programmes, specifically soccer. Then less so, probably golf. And I like playing golf, as well... If the weather is good, which is not very often in Dublin! And generally, I like reading magazines and books. So that basically takes most of my time up.
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For five guys from Sheffield who didn't know shit about anything, being in a band was like winning the lottery. Suddenly you didn't have to beg for a date anymore - they'd come up to you.
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We always get lumped into that whole '80s thing, but we were never a part of it. For a start, we weren't even from America. And anything that those bands did, they only did because we started it off. That's the only thing that we can be attached to the blame of.
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Our fans are the best in the world. We know if we ask them to stand and cheer, they will. If we ask them to clap along they will. I guess you could call it a love affair - we love our fans and they love us.
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Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.