David Essex Quotes

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David Essex

Profession : Singer

Birth : July 23, 1947

I've just never stopped working.

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Change is a stimulant for me.

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I'm a big fan of Brian Wilson. I read that he used to write with his feet in a tin of sand so I thought he couldn't be all that bad.

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It was never my plan to be a teen idol.

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I started in blues bands when I was 15.

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Interviews can be interesting. A bit like going to a psychiatrist, you know?

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You just have to be professional and show the kind of courtesy and interest in audiences that they have shown in me. I hope that doesn't sound too worthy - it's just the way I feel.

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I have always tried to get to tomorrow today. I don't really wallow in what is happening at the moment.

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I was always quite shy so I became a drummer.

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To sacrifice personal freedom to gain creative freedom is a fair enough price.

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I never planned anything. I never had an image. I was just being me. If it hadn't worked out I would have done anything with freedom. I would have driven a truck across Europe.

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I think the world would be a richer place if there were less rules and regulations.

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What worries me about modern society is how inhibited it is. I'd like to see more eccentrics and more freedom, less surveillance and all of that stuff.

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I write in the garden room, on my terrace at home in Covent Garden.

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Che was a revolutionary, doctor, author, leader and a global symbol. Growing up in the Sixties, his poster, alongside Jimi Hendrix, would be on many a boy's wall. Of course when I played him in the musical, 'Evita,' and researched his life, there was a dark side to the man, but I do admire his idealism.

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My ears used to ring for about two hours after a concert from all the high-pitched screaming.

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The fans are very loyal. I look into the audience and you can see what is obviously three generations of the same family.

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The British like to pigeonhole you, but I will keep popping out of different holes.

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Kids know how to play one parent off against the other. So Mum says no, only to be told: 'But Dad said it was OK... ' And then you find yourself in all sorts of trouble for being a pushover.

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I just write the music I want to - if people like it that's great, if they don't well that's unfortunate.

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