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"This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder."
Home
"We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short."
People
"When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again."
Music
"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."
People
"If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever."
Love
"The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life."
Life
"We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing."
Want
"Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing."
People
"We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people."
People
"We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good."
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"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
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"The industry is a menace to artists."
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"There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist."
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"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."
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"Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist."
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"Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave."
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