Marc Almond Quotes
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There's no such thing as 'I can't do it'.
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Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
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I made a creativity out of that messiness.
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I like situations that force me to rethink things.
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So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.
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I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.
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I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.
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A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.
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I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.
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Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.
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As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
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I'm always aware of mortality.
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I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.
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My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.
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For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
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I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.
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What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had these bonkers heads of department and A&R people who, even after a flop album, would let you make another one.
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People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.
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Sometimes I ask myself, "Should I be out in a club?" But it's about realising I don't need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ago.
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People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.
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A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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