The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.
BOY GEORGE[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at [‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he’s cool.
More Boy George Quotes
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I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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When I first went to New York, I didn’t really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn’t really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
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I’m a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan… none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they’re singing about is just as important as how they’re singing it.
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I’m not someone who can sing anything… And my favorite singers aren’t people whose voice you would say is amazing.
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The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
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Gay unions, what is that about? I haven’t been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn’t go anyway.
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I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
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The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music.
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My God is better than your God
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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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