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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I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!
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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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Intelligence can't be insulted.
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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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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 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 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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It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.
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I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.
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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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Women's fashion is more interesting than men's.
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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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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 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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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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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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I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.
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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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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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I've got three kids, and those are mouths to feed.
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I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.