Def Leppard Quotes
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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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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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We do see in the next few years more opportunities coming again for our company that we've not seen for the last two to three years.
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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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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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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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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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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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We've always been a prolific band. Writing good songs has never been a problem.
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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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I like working hard and achieving things, so determined, independent, and a nice guy.
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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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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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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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Still waiting, although the last night of the Hysteria shed tour with the guys from Europe was hiliarious.
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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 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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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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We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.
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There's a lot more to being a singer than singing. I don't come off stage thinking that I have a power over people 'cause I don't - it's not a power, it's an ability to be able to communicate with a vast amount of people, something I'm very lucky to be able to do.