Showing posts with label Duran Duran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Duran Duran. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 September 2013

Def Leppard Quotes

Def Leppard QuotesJoe Elliott: "Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together."

Rick Allen: "There's a standard that we never let ourselves go below. We're our own worst critics."

Phil Collen: "We make music for escapism. It's like Star Wars for the Ears."

Rick Savage: "We were not into punk. We were all heavy rock fans before we formed this band."

Steve Clark: "It's an incredible feeling to stand on stage and see so many people getting into your music. I can't imagine there being a more satisfying feeling in the world."

Vivian Campbell: "I don't have to try and be a comedian to fit in the band. It's such a comfortable vibe."

Joe Elliott: "We always had a plan for success. From the very start we've known what we wanted to accomplish. Everything's progressed amazingly."

Rick Allen: "When anything happens to us we always pull together, not only personally but musically."

Phil Collen: "We thought a lot of the heavy metal stuff was ridiculous. And we still do. We didn't want to be Duran Duran either, so we were somewhere in the middle."

Rick Savage: "Being in a band is all about compromise. When everybody can compromise and still feel they're going in the right direction, then you have a happy band."

Thursday, 29 August 2013

Duran Duran Quotes

Duran Duran QuotesAndy Taylor: "I'd always felt like being weird, but there was no one to be weird with in Newcastle."

John Taylor: "I met Nick at an institute for waywardly homoerotic teenagers."

Roger Taylor: "Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band."

Simon Le Bon: " That's what a bit of ice cube on the nipple will do fore you."

Nick Rhodes: "The eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the nineties, everyone wanted to fit in."

John Taylor: "That's how me and Nick became friends...we were both into girls' clothes."

Simon Le Bon: "The greatest musician I know is John Taylor."

Andy Taylor: "They were the biggest bunch of weirdos I'd ever seen."

Nick Rhodes: "I find that the older you get, the more helpful eyeliner is."

Roger Taylor: "I finally got the call from John...about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought the moment had passed."