Graham Russell Quotes

• We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!

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• I’m playing great music with great people and so there’s no reason to stop.

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• I’m a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of ‘Lost in Love’ and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!

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• I’m a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That’s my theory.

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• I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.

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• I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I’m trying to say and I’ll think about that for a couple of days until it’s all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it’ll just fall out. But the song’s kind of all ready there in my head.

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• I think ‘All Out of Love’ is my favorite song because it’s been the most successful. It’s been in about 30 movies, it’s been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it’s always somewhere.

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• Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you’ve used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

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• The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that’s just got to be the name. That was in 1975.

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• I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that’s what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with.

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• I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like “Too Sentimental” is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There’s definitely varied songs on there.

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Graham Russell (11)

Birth:	11th June, 1950
Nationality:	Australian, British
Profession:	Guitarist, Singer

About

Cyril Graham Russell was born in Sherwood, Nottingham, England. He is a British-Australian guitarist and singer of the soft rock duo Air Supply. In 1975, with Russell Hitchcock, he formed Air Supply in Australia. The duo have been singing romantic songs and ballads, such as "Lost in Love", "All Out Of Love", "Every Woman In The World", "The One That You Love", "Goodbye", and "Making Love Out of Nothing at All", for more than forty years. In 1961, he composed his first song, called "That Rockin' Feeling."

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