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Date of Birth: February 16, 1961 Find on Amazon: Andy Taylor |
From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.
Andy Taylor I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was! Andy Taylor I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible. Andy Taylor I thought it would be weird if Duran Duran came back but didn't have a great song the whole world could sing. That's one of the things that drives us. Andy Taylor 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. Andy Taylor It was fairly evident that nobody wanted to do this as a one-off thing. It's too big a part of our life to do it quickly and dispose of it. Andy Taylor 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. Andy Taylor Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing. Andy Taylor Music is escapism, it's entertainment. Andy Taylor Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing. Andy Taylor Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it. Andy Taylor The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess. Andy Taylor The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music. Andy Taylor The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life. Andy Taylor There are very few guys you meet in your life that you can work with, but the five of us just know what the other guys are thinking and where we fit. Andy Taylor 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. Andy Taylor Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously. Andy Taylor To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well. Andy Taylor We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing. Andy Taylor 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. Andy Taylor 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. Andy Taylor We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is. Andy Taylor We recorded a bunch of the shows because they were the first shows we'd done back together. We wanted to have a memento of them. Andy Taylor We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great. Andy Taylor We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of. Andy Taylor We've kinda been watching the business fall apart and have been wondering how to take care of our business and make sure it doesn't get affected. Andy Taylor We've never actually stopped talking. We all saw each other-there wasn't any great divide. There were no big walls or barriers to get over. Andy Taylor When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don't have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there's usually someone there to help you do that! Andy Taylor 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. Andy Taylor When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that-a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together. Andy Taylor You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything. Andy Taylor You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation. Andy Taylor |
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