Quotes by Leo Sayer - Page 2

We used to spend a lot of time as kids in Northern Ireland, on the border and in southern Ireland as well.
Leo Sayer /
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Border
Northern
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There's nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.
Leo Sayer /
Book
Fire
Good Book
Sitting
Winter
Good Better Nothing
Curling
Evenings
Front
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I particularly love the silk in Jakarta, the shoes in Tokyo and the amazing cloth from Thailand and Malaysia.
Leo Sayer /
Malaysia
Silk
Thailand
Tokyo
Cloth
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Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.
Leo Sayer /
Showbiz
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So many people moan about touring and say it's a chore. I don't know, they must be living on a different planet.
Leo Sayer /
Touring
Must People Know
Chore
Living People Know
Moan
Planet
So Many People
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You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.
Leo Sayer /
Song
Life Your Song
Life Your Never
Elvis
Necessarily
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I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.
Leo Sayer /
Business Done Always
Be Yourself
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I'm not this cuddly, jumper-wearing, good-guy. I'm not David Cassidy. I'm more Johnny Rotten. I'm more Donny Tourette.
Leo Sayer /
Rotten
Cuddly
Johnny
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I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over content.
Leo Sayer /
Receptive
Love Music Style
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It's been hard to gain acceptance in England without the clown makeup because I wore the costume as part of my act for so long.
Leo Sayer /
Acceptance
Clown
England
Makeup
Costume
Gain
Wore
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In the '70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.
Leo Sayer /
Love Me
Equivalent
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I grew up on the south coast in Shoreham-by-Sea in a three-bedroom semi-detached home with a large garden shared by two properties.
Leo Sayer /
Garden
Properties
Shared
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When you've sung the same song a million or a hundred thousand times, there are always moments when you drift off and go into automatic.
Leo Sayer /
Thousand
Automatic
Drift
Sung
Thousand Times
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Kids in England will stop you on the streets and tell you bluntly they don't care for your current record. But it keeps you down to earth.
Leo Sayer /
Don't Care
Down To Earth
Earth
England
Streets
Your Will Care
Current
Record
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It happens in this business - The Rolling Stones were ripped off, so were the Beatles. George Harrison hardly had anything left in the end.
Leo Sayer /
Business
Left
Ripped
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
George
Hardly
Off
In The End
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Fame is always a bit crazy. You spend so long banging on the door trying to get in that when it suddenly opens, it's a very strange feeling.
Leo Sayer /
Banging
Opens
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I've typical singer's jowls, a bit fat and soggy. If I was really vain, I would have a nip and tuck, but the knife isn't an exciting prospect.
Leo Sayer /
Typical
Vain
Fat
Singer
Nip
Prospect
Tuck
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As a former Mod my love affair with fashion has never waned and whenever I go on tour I am always desperate to hit the shops as soon as possible.
Leo Sayer /
Affair
Desperate
Former
Love Affair
Shops
Love Always I Am
Love I Am Always
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When I was dressed as a clown in all that make-up I used to shed pounds every night and got agonising kidney stones because I was sweating so much.
Leo Sayer /
Clown
Every Night
Night
Pounds
Shed
Stones
Sweating
Dressed
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Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good they are.
Leo Sayer /
Careers
Performers
High Point
Sustain
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That's the nature of the business. You can have a hit and then nothing happens all of a sudden. But I don't resent it. Hits don't make great artists.
Leo Sayer /
Resent
Artists
Hit
Sudden
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I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who don't like Robbie Williams but he is presented to the public in such a way that they have no choice.
Leo Sayer /
Plenty
People Way Who
Sure
Choice
Public
No Choice
Presented
Such A Way
Williams
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In the past, it wasn't any big deal for people with talent to hang out together. Now we have the celebrity age, which has made a lot of things harder to do.
Leo Sayer /
Big Deal
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I have always believed that there is no age factor to this music business. You are only as old as you feel and basically you can be a contender at any time.
Leo Sayer /
Music Business
Time Business Age
Basically
Believed
Contender
Factor
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There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I'm the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me.
Leo Sayer /
Disco
Love King Me
Misconceptions
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I keep reminding myself I'm the same guy who was lucky enough to get my break because Roger Daltrey commissioned me to write the songs for one of his earlier albums.
Leo Sayer /
Albums
Reminding
Roger
Myself Enough Me
Commissioned
Earlier
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The Seventies was a golden era. Back then we had some incredible talent with bands like the Undertones, the Rolling Stones and artists like Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney.
Leo Sayer /
Bob
Dylan
Golden
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Seventies
Stones
Bob Dylan
Mccartney
Paul
Paul Mccartney
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I really admire Ed Sheeran. He seems to have really beaten his way through and I think that's fantastic. He's his own man - good for him. But there aren't many of him out there.
Leo Sayer /
Admire
Beaten
Fantastic
Ed Sheeran
His Way
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I've found an extraordinary thing happens where I flash an entire finished song. I could be walking along, say over that bridge, and I see and hear the whole thing, words and music.
Leo Sayer /
Flash
Bridge
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My first two albums, 'Silverbird and 'Just a Boy,' which had the single 'Long Tall Glasses' on it, were very well received. Then I did another one, 'Another Year,' which did miserably.
Leo Sayer /
Albums
Glasses
Tall
Received
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In my earlier albums like 'Another Year' and 'Just A Boy,' I always saw myself as a bit of a loser - the kind of guy who takes a drink and walks into a wall instead of through the door.
Leo Sayer /
Walks
Earlier
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I'm impressed with Ed Sheeran. I think he has a terrific point of view and a great mentality but I sense there is someone in the background saying to him, 'We need more love songs, Ed.'
Leo Sayer /
Impressed
Mentality
Point Of View
Terrific
Love Great View
Ed Sheeran
Love Songs
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There were people who went for serious mind enhancement, like Jimi Hendrix or John Lennon, although I didn't really need to do that. I was blessed with an incredibly fertile imagination.
Leo Sayer /
Enhancement
Fertile
Hendrix
Lennon
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In the early Nineties, after my first round of financial problems, I started a studio in Kensal Road in London right at the time when no record company wanted to hear anything from Leo Sayer.
Leo Sayer /
Round
Leo
Nineties
Record Company
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Before I got married, I had a girlfriend who ran off in the middle of our relationship with a millionaire. She called from the South of France and said, 'I found one, I'm sorry. That's it. Goodbye!'
Leo Sayer /
France
Girlfriend
Goodbye
Married
Millionaire
Ran
Sorry
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You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.
Leo Sayer /
Beckham
Leave Me Alone
Normal Life
Paparazzi
Openings
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One of the reasons I had moved to London to pursue my career was that I could go to the clubs in the evening and maybe meet my heroes, people like Donovan and Bert Jansch and Dylan. I actually did see Dylan in a club one night.
Leo Sayer /
Clubs
Dylan
Evening
London
Moved
Night
Pursue
Heroes
Career
Club
Maybe
Meet
Reasons
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After my second No. 1, my record company, Warner Brothers, gave me a beautiful present - quite unique at the time - one of the very first Sony stereos which had speaker and radio included so I could record the radio and build up cassette tapes of music, gospel singing, adverts, evangelists.
Leo Sayer /
Company
Radio
Singing
Sony
Unique
Warner Brothers
Time Music Beautiful
Build
Gospel
Brothers
Cassette
Evangelist
Gave
Included
Record
Present
Speaker
Tapes
Warner
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