Top Marc Almond Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Marc Almond Biography

Peter Mark Sinclair "Marc" Almond, OBE (UK: /ˈɑːmənd/; born 9 July 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Almond first began performing and recording in the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell. He has also had a diverse career as a solo artist. His collaborations include a duet with Gene Pitney on the 1989 UK number one single "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart". Almond has sold over 30 million records worldwide. He spent a month in a coma after a near-fatal motorcycle accident in 2004 and later became a patron of the brain trauma charity Headway.

Read about Marc Almond in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Marc Almond Quotes

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

Album, Albums, Come, People, Shame, Way

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.

Behind You, Grow, Growing Up, Let It Go, Turns, Way

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock
pop performer, and that's what I like.

Element, Elements, Performer, Pops, Rocks, Shows

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

Cheese, Done, Like, Singers, Think, Thinking

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

Place, Quite, Russia, Sometimes, Thinking

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

50S, Album, Albums, Chance, Gonna, Late

I'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I've got a big collection of them.

Leather, Leather Jackets, Song, Wearing, Write, Writing

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.

Part, People, Small, Thinking, Write, Writing

That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

Energy, Europe, Good Day, Make, Thinking, Way

When people talk about gender-benders and bracket me with George, I always think I'm not like that. I had more of a rock edge, mixed with the 80s electro.

80S, Like, People, Rocks, Thinking

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

Become, Life, Part, Person, Persons, Sort

I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.

Art, Eye, Flat, Girl, Heard, Local

A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.

Adventure, Drag, Queens, Song, Wrote

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

Cities, Modern, Old Things, Past, Terrible, Thinking

Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

Song, Kids, Years, Sing, Carry

Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.

Bits, Harsh, Maybe, People

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

Europe, Example, Mean, Track

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.

Art, College, Down, Summer

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

Confusing, Diverse, Europe, Past, Probably, Thinking

If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

Back, Born, Draws, Magnet, Sea

1