Pet Shop Boys Quotes
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I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.
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Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.
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At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
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There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.
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For the moment, the big thing is rebuilding and it's going to be hugely expensive and acrimonious.
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Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.
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It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.
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The Fed would only pause on the GM news if there were some indication that the news threatens the health of the economy as a whole or the health of the financial markets as a whole.
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There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.
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We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.
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A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.
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The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
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I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.
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There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and it's outdoors, and it's mainly Italians that go, and they all look great, and they're dancing on the tables, and life's a party, and they're totally into the music, going mental, and that's when dance music is really fantastic, I think.
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I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.
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We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.
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Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.
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Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.
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I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
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Strong December durable goods and the upward revision to November show that perhaps there isn't enough monetary restraint after all.
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Retail sales are expected to be down, but worry about Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index releases Thursday and Friday could keep any bond market rally in check.
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You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures.
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Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.
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Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.