Simon Taylor-Davis quotes
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“I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around.”
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“I think there is always that kind of thing when you're opening that you just want to blow the headline band away.”
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“I think it's a lot harder when you're opening. You really have to win people over.”
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“It's a lot easier having a girlfriend in a band than if you were going out with someone that lived in London.”
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“You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.”
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“I think that as a teenager in England, it's very hard to avoid Europe. You see Barcelona, and you see all those places as a youngster. You go there on school trips and everything, but America is like a different planet.”
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“It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix.”
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“I think that iTunes is opened up a whole new world to me, and I never thought it would. If you've got a day off in a hotel room, you can buy three albums and then they're there. It's kind of strange to have a relationship with that.”
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“I kind of stopped buying vinyl because I'm always on the road and you can never listen to it.”
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“It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love.”
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“The first show I ever saw was Meat Loaf, and it was on the Bat Out of Hell tour. Meat Loaf actually had a huge 20-foot bat behind him. Smoke came out of the bat's nose and his eyes glowed red - which is still one of the most mindblowing productions I've ever seen.”
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“David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him].”
-- Simon Taylor-Davis
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