Neil Tennant Quotes

• When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events – collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors – because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.

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• They’ve pursued their own agendas, and they’ve done what they’ve wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They’ve followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.

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• I’m always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it’s about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it’s about love in the drug culture.

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• I think there’s an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

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• I think the world should be one community.

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• We shouldn’t feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn’t have to be a cultural choice. That’s an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

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• We decided we didn’t want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

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• The first song is called London. It’s about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

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• We’ve been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us – it’s going to be almost like rock music.

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• To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn’t have to be an issue. It shouldn’t box you in.

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• It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.

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• For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn’t get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.

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• The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late ’80s.

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• When I was I younger I didn’t want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn’t want to be a clone. Now this was in the late ’70s.

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• Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

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• We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it’s a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

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• We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

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• I didn’t want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache – that’s what you had to do, and everyone did.

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• A lot of what used to be known as gay culture – broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp – has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it’s just sex.

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• At one time musical theater, particularly in the ’40s and ’50s, was a big source of pop songs. That’s how musical theater started, really – it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.

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Neil Tennant (26)

Birth:	10th July, 1954
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Musician, Lyricist, Singer

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