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Ron Mael
Profession : Musician
Birth : August 12, 1945
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To have a Beatle doing an impression of you, I almost retired at that moment.
Ron Mael
When we first started in Los Angeles, we thought of ourselves in our own delusional way as being a British band, even though we'd never been to England at that point, so musically it's kind of sometimes hard to place where we're from.
Ron Mael
When we first started it was just Russell and myself and a guitar player, Earle Mankey, and unlike virtually any other band in Los Angeles, we began by recording rather than playing live, and so we had no feedback at all on what we were doing and we didn't realise how unusual it was.
Ron Mael
We made demos of those early songs that we recorded in our guitarist's bedroom with just a reel-to-reel tape, and we sent those to at least 20 different record companies at the time thinking, oh the offers are just going to be flowing in. The only person that did respond was Todd Rundgren, and we're forever indebted to him.
Ron Mael
I'm basically a stoic person anyway, so I just decided to maybe emphasise that, and I was surprised as anybody that it was gaining as much attention as all the jumping about.
Ron Mael
I like the jarring thing, both in the music and the lyrics. That's why a lot of times our songs have a proper name of somebody. Usually you hear lyrics and something's going on, but it's just song lyrics. But if there's something in it, even a name that you don't associate with a song, it sticks out and becomes less wallpaper.
Ron Mael
So much respect is given to artists who are doing things that seems sort of timeless and legitimate. That kind of legitimacy and timelessness is to me sort of the opposite of what pop music should be.
Ron Mael
We really like pop music, and it's not something to look down on or to legitimize. It is what it is.
Ron Mael
In a certain way, longevity is its own kind of success. While we would like to be in the position of those bands that are secure in ways that maybe we're not, we kind of feel like we're in a better position. We're bitter for short periods of time, but in the long run, we think we won out.
Ron Mael
We don't set out to be polarizing. But just by the nature of what we've always done, it seems to have a certain polarizing aspect, so it kind of seemed almost natural that a film that we would be involved in would have that same kind of reaction.
Ron Mael
Obviously, you want to be universally adored in what you're doing, and especially just because other incredible people are involved in the 'Annette' project, you hate to see there be any kind of negativity about it.
Ron Mael
When I was in France, I'd buy books about the history of the Cannes Film Festival, with all those images of the red carpet with, you know, Brigitte Bardot and Marcello Mastroianni in his tuxedo. To actually be going there with the opening-night film is really surreal.
Ron Mael
One tries to be uplifting in one's songs, but occasionally a cloud appears in the sky and one's demeanor leads to songs like 'I'm Toast.' Even the guitars sound depressed.
Ron Mael
The first time we wrote a full-blown movie musical was our adaptation of 'Mai, the Psychic Girl' for Tim Burton, which didn't get made. We learned pretty early on from that experience how to incorporate dialogue into a musical setting that feels naturalistic while still feeling stylized.
Ron Mael
That's something we really enjoy - incorporating things that don't ordinarily find people breaking into song.
Ron Mael
When things come back and we're in some small way cast as the originators of a movement, we don't take it as much as a compliment as some people may consider it.
Ron Mael
We haven't mellowed over time.
Ron Mael
I can't think of a band that has made 19 albums, and hasn't either moved into what I call the manor class, or disappeared, or else is just doing things that are a very mellow version of what they've always done.
Ron Mael
We were really fortunate that what we were doing happened to work on television.
Ron Mael
You have to have an enemy to react against. We think it's important to have a sort of us-versus-them situation.
Ron Mael
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