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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#beer #grandeur #great #great men #in my opinion

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#being #capitalism #capitalist #caused #course

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was! ↗

— Andy Taylor

#artist #being #discovered #how #i

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#cry #deal #far #horrible #i

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#allows #consume #find #great #great thing

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#business #days #find #home #just

We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#greatest #greatest hits #hits #just #out

We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#bunch #conscious #done #exist #fact

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#audience #cool #had #huge #huge audience

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#been #get #label #look #music