Andy Taylor Sayings

#1. When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain't right to go back on it. No. Never let your friend down, never break a trust, and when you give your word, never go back on it.
-Sheriff Andy Taylor

Lauren Myracle

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Andy Taylor

#5. She laughed. There should be a word for a laugh that ends as soon as it starts. A laugh that's more a syllable of surprise and acknowledgment than it is anything else.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. 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

#7. I think it would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Andy Warhol

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.

Miley Cyrus

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Andy Taylor

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Andy Taylor

#18. I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.

Jerry Yang

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Anne Lamott

#22. 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

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

Andy Taylor

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

Andy Taylor

#25. Humanity would have to work for that society, and work hard, dedicating themselves to an unending vigilance against the mistakes of the past. It

Erika Johansen

#26. I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.

Caroline Myss

#27. You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

Andy Taylor

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

Andy Taylor

#29. One of the best things about good mothers is that they remind their children to take care of themselves.

Kristin Armstrong

#30. As Andy says, being in this band in the early 1980s made you feel like you were part of a pizza. We were always one of the band, one of Duran Duran, or one of the Taylors.

Roger Andrew Taylor

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

Andy Taylor

#32. Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

Andy Taylor

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.

John Sculley

#36. 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