Chris Lowe Quotes

• House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

  Chris Lowe

  Respect, Hate, Hip Hop

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• Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

  Chris Lowe

  Men, Idiot, Invention

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• There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

  Chris Lowe

  Being In Love, People, Feelings

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• Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

  Chris Lowe

  Girl, Boys, Prodigies

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• Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

  Chris Lowe

  Stupid, Long, Ego

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

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  Letting Go, Writing, Scary

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

  Chris Lowe

  Thinking, Two, Madness

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• Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

  Chris Lowe

  Hate, Seems

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• Nothing like tailgating on the Bayou. LSU is my personal favorite. Maybe it's my penchant for the spicy stuff. But there's nothing like sampling a little gumbo, a little jambalaya and then diving face-first in to a shrimp boil. The aroma just walking through the parking lot of Tiger Stadium stays with you the whole day, and the LSU fans get there early and stay late.

  Chris Lowe

  Lsu, Gumbo, Fans

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• I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

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  Strong, Eye, Thinking

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• Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.

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  Records, Favourite

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• Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

  Chris Lowe

  Opera, Soap, Soap Operas

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

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  Ends, Position, Entertainment Business

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• When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.

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  Girl, Clubs, West

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• I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

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  Artist, Thinking, Sight

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• Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.

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  Mean, People, Trying

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• I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

  Chris Lowe

  Thinking, Mad, Gone

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

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  Radio, Internet, Feels

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• The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.

  Chris Lowe

  Fun, Laughing, Clubs

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• Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

  Chris Lowe

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

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  Song, Writing, Boys

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• I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

  Chris Lowe

  Thinking, Mad, Gone

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

  Chris Lowe

  Play, People, Waiting

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