Best quotes by Gilbert O'Sullivan on Me
Checkout quotes by Gilbert O'Sullivan on Me
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‟ When the magazines talk about artists they talk about the Paul McCartneys, the Paul Simons, they never talk about me. So their readers and contemporary artists are never going to check me out because they're not reading about me.
- Gilbert O'Sullivan
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‟ I've never recorded anyone else's songs. I'm not interested. If you gave me a song by Bono and Edge and promised me a number one hit with it I'd still say no. That, for me, is not the kind of success I want.
- Gilbert O'Sullivan
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‟ Whenever I write lyrics and an Americanism slips in, I always cut it straight out. I can't use the word 'babe,' for instance. It makes me cringe.
- Gilbert O'Sullivan
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‟ I'd go to meetings with record companies - CBS, Decca, EMI. They'd tell me to wear a pair of jeans and grow my hair and look normal. And I'd say, 'Sod that,' and storm out. And I do think that belligerence is important when you're young.
- Gilbert O'Sullivan
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‟ I think if every song I had was, 'I love you, you love me,' there would be a problem.
- Gilbert O'Sullivan
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‟ What I would hate to go through is what happened in the mid-90s playing in front of a half-empty theatre, which prompted me to say 'never again' when it came to Waterford. To go through that again in any of the places I call home would destroy me.
- Gilbert O'Sullivan
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‟ To be successful to me meant to have a hit record in England. I never looked outside England.
- Gilbert O'Sullivan
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‟ I quite like the idea of performing in front of people that don't like me.
- Gilbert O'Sullivan
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‟ I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.
- Gilbert O'Sullivan