- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
- Authority
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
- Exciting Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
- Nov 07, 2020
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
- Blind Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
- Nov 07, 2020
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
- Eat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
- Note
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why play a chord when you can play one note?
- Loads
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- Nov 07, 2020