Duran Duran Quotes
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The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
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Intelligence can't be insulted.
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I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.
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You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
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I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.
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I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
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I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone wanted to fit in. It was all about having the same pair of trainers and the same pair of jeans. That's fatal. Whereas the Eighties you would never be seen in the same pair of jeans that somebody else was wearing.
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Music is escapism, it's entertainment.
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It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
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It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.
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Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.
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Women's fashion is more interesting than men's.
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Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.
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I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.
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After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
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There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.
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You can only sleep in one bed at a time.
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I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.
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Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.
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When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.
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Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.
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The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.
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You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.
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I've got three kids, and those are mouths to feed.