Quotes by Marc Almond

Marc Almond

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.

Adventure

Queens

Song

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.

Generations

Today

Way

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

Albums

Self

Song

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

Interesting

Long

People

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

Europe

Finished

Projects

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.

Kids

Song

Years

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.

Guitar

Play

Song

Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn’t about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It’s about making people believe in the story you’re telling.

Believe

People

Singing

I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it’s scary Up North!

Magnet

Scary

Up North

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.

Moving

Song

Writing

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Albums

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Artist

Believe

Bits

Book

Born

Broken

Care

Careers

Cells

Chance

Chasing

Cities

Clothes

Clubs

College

Creative

Creativity

Different

Done

Doubt

Drug

Elements

Europe

Eye

Eyebrows

Fall

Fame

Feelings

Finished

Force

Gates

Generations

Girl

Good Day

Growing Up

Guitar

Hands

Harsh

I Can

Ideas

Interesting

Kids

Kind

Late

Leather Jackets

Let It Go

Long

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Quotes by Marc Almond

Marc Almond

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.

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.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

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.

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.

Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn’t about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It’s about making people believe in the story you’re telling.

I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it’s scary Up North!

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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