Duran Duran Quotes
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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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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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The most stylish country in the world is Italy.
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It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.
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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
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Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.
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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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You can only sleep in one bed at a time.
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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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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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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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The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
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It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.
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Intelligence can't be insulted.
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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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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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I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.
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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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It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.
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The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.
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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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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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I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.