Andy Taylor Quotes

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

Used, Days, Drink

Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.
Andy Taylor

Songs, Relate, Melodic

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.
Andy Taylor

Music, Escapism

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.
Andy Taylor

Five, Exist, Guess

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.
Andy Taylor

Music, Great, Find

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
Andy Taylor

Life, Bring, Ability

We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing.
Andy Taylor

Greatest, Whole, Hits

We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.
Andy Taylor

Great, Live, Wanted

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.
Andy Taylor

Young, Difficult, Corner

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.
Andy Taylor

Stability, Commercial, Operation

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

Power, Same, Wanted

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

Lonely, Working, Another

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

Music, Today, Pretty

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

Love, Rock, Career

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

Great, Small, Working

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

Yourself, Different, Challenge

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

Home, Business, Find

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

Down, Play, Old

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

Real, Done, Reason

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

Cool, Short, Listen

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

Good, Fun, Yourself

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

Help, Someone, Real

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

Music, Again, Touch

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

Future, Past, Together

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

God, Home, Help

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Nationality: English

Born: February 16, 1961

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