Paul Young Quotes

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Paul Young

Profession : Singer

Birth : January 17, 1956

I suppose I was lucky to be born in a time where I was in my early '20s in the '80s. It was just a happening time to be around.

Paul Young

I've done more than a few concerts on the same stage as Nik Kershaw, and I've done a couple with Go West.

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I'd been really shy as a kid, I had a terrible stutter, and I thought music would be a good outlet. And it definitely seemed to improve things for me, so I stuck with it.

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I was in L.A. with my wife in a restaurant, and I spotted my great hero David Bowie at another table. Of course I wasn't going to bother him. Then I felt a tap on my shoulder, and it was Bowie, and he squatted down to talk to me. David Bowie came down to my level - so gentlemanly.

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I'm not a big fan of reality TV shows.

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I remember being 12 or 13 and listening to 'Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp' by OC Smith. It reminds me of holidays in Cornwall, driving in a big estate car, me and my brother sleeping in the back, we would get up early and my dad would put pillows on the back seat and we would lay on the back seat while we drove off on holiday.

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When I was young music was life or death.

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Whatever I do, I do it in moderation.

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I don't think you can be as successful as an artist like Robbie Williams unless you're thinkin' about yourself 24 hours a day.

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When I was at the height of my fame I got my first what you could loosely describe as a mansion! I didn't even find it myself, my keyboard player was leafing through a homes magazine at the dentist's and said, 'You'd like this.' It was art deco and I loved art deco, I lived there for about 14 years.

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Swimwear on TV is something I should have done in my 20s.

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I love playing live and I love to travel. I don't get bored by either one.

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It makes no sense to me at all to give away music for free. The very fact that we have to do that cheapens the music. And there's a huge effect to that of music not playing such a big part in peoples' lives anymore.

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I'm a musician and I go places and perform to people that want to listen to good music.

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Recording everything with analogue equipment, as we did with 'No Parlez,' left space for the sorts of happy accidents that can make the most interesting sounds.

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I've always liked Iggy. He did an album, 'New Values,' in the punk days that I played to death. When you see him live, the way he moves, what he does - nothing is planned.

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Rick James was a force to be reckoned with. He was an underground success here but huge in the U.S. - people used to compare him to Prince. Sadly, he had an early death.

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I was quite shy of fame. It took some getting used to.

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When I'm not doing solo shows, I'm performing with my cowboy band Los Pacaminos - we play the kind of music you'd hear in Tarantino films.

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