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Ron Mael
Profession : Musician
Birth : August 12, 1945
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We sometimes feel a little world-weary where pop music is going.
Ron Mael
You want to seek out the things that inspire you to keep doing what you're doing.
Ron Mael
We're always just trying to keep ourselves interested enough to make music that will excite other people in the same way that we feel excited doing it.
Ron Mael
You take special pleasure at the over-analysis of things sometimes.
Ron Mael
There's something about Cannes being this ultimate film destination, and we're passionate about films; we grew up with foreign films.
Ron Mael
I'm so happy that the first time Russell and I saw 'Annette' with an audience was at the Cannes Film Festival, and even more pleased that it got such a strong positive reaction because that's pretty much the top honor when it comes to screening a film.
Ron Mael
I don't listen to music to be soothed.
Ron Mael
Obviously we have a sensibility that's aligned to everything we've done but we try not within certain ways to repeat ourselves.
Ron Mael
Some songs are sort of born in the studio but some songs are really half-written in the studio.
Ron Mael
Even though we try not to be nostalgic about drawing from old music, I'm always inspired by things like old Cole Porter songs or the words in the Gershwin songs or even Stephen Sondheim, where there's a real craft to them but it isn't only that you're hearing the words it's that it links so well with the music.
Ron Mael
One reason we've been able to do what we do is that we never put our music into any kind of historical perspective.
Ron Mael
We've always worked in the short term, in the moment.
Ron Mael
Of course everybody wants to be filthy stinking rich. But we've seen the effect that having that kind of massive success has had on other people musically. I really think that our music has gotten stronger because of a slight level of fear you get when you don't have that kind of success.
Ron Mael
Songs like 'So May We Start' and 'We Love Each Other So Much' aren't song-songs; they're more like rhythmic speaking, not in a rock-music kind of way but as actual dialogue.
Ron Mael
There's definitely a Leos Carax universe that he has created in his films; we've done something similar with our music and lyrics. He's a pretty uncompromising filmmaker and we feel the same way.
Ron Mael
We've really learned to ignore past failures.
Ron Mael
We already tried writing musicals. Sometimes that failure can become a cause for us. We had so much passion for the idea of doing a movie musical that it finally happened.
Ron Mael
Something that means a lot to me is when people from other fields are inspired by what we're doing.
Ron Mael
We've kind of always felt a certain illegitimacy about what we've done.
Ron Mael
We just thought that bands from the U.S. in general were just really boring, and they didn't represent what we felt pop music should be.
Ron Mael
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