Andy Taylor Quotations

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My family are all coming down to the game tomorrow and although it is very last minute they are all excited.

I wish we could have kept him longer. There's more work to do, but he's done a tremendous job for us. He's made a difference.

I am confident that we have a high quality business and, with a much-reduced cost base, I believe we are well placed to rapidly return to profitability going forward.

I am totally focused on repairing the short-term damage to what is fundamentally a robust business,

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It allows me to stay in the art scene socially and professionally while making connections for my art.

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.

That way we'll be on a level playing field and remedy the harm to the party has put on us so far.

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.

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.

When I first moved to Houston, I had to spend some time figuring out what I wanted to do. The last year has been sort of dormant, but now things have just exploded. It's been kind of crazy how things have just blown up.

The past 12 months have been the most difficult and challenging period that Sanctuary has ever had. As a result, we have had to make some fundamental changes and difficult decisions, but it was essential to make them and we have acted quickly to do so.

There's a good side and a bad side to this.

The show has a lot to do with manhood and how men come into being. I grew up without my father in the picture, and my grandfather was my main role model. The aesthetics (of the show) come from the male model skipping a generation.

Premiering the show online a week before its television transmission is a first for Channel 4 and what better show could we start with than this? The IT Crowd is a surreal look at the underclass of a company and we're giving people the chance to see it first.

It's just one more thing that people get to hear about the speaker in a bad light. It just keeps a constant type of drumbeat alive, and keeps his name in the public's consciousness.

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.

It's hard to know what they were thinking. It's never too late for the chairman to make the right decision. But if the chairman insists on it, we'll go forward with that hearing. We fully expect to win. My hope is they put down their objections and move one.

Everybody around this table has been hurt (by canker). We need to look beyond the four corners of this table.

The board is determined to steer the company, which has an extremely strong roster of artists and a strong 30-year track record, back to a profitable trading position and back to sustainable long term growth.

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.

He's someone who has a tremendous amount of experience in dealing with these things.

I am well aware that Sanctuary has disappointed the market significantly this year and, with hindsight, it is clear we grew too fast.

I am pleased with the rapid progress we have made in addressing the key issues and costs in our business and we will continue to restructure the group over the next few weeks and months,