#or

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category. ↗

— Al Gore

#know #lose #old #saying #some

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#even #every #every day #feel #i

I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#been #film #film industry #homophobic #i

We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#april #days #driving #first #first time

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#being #capable #communication #communication skills #even

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well. ↗

— Martin Gore

#boring #error #experimentation #hit #just

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me. ↗

— Martin Gore

#cover #i #i do #important #me

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult. ↗

— Martin Gore

#difficult #find #five #german #girlfriend

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions. ↗

— Martin Gore

#chosen #different #different directions #directions #i

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song. ↗

— Martin Gore

#big #big break #break #death #exactly