Simon Taylor-Davis Born : June 18, 1982 Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Simon Taylor-Davis I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around. Simon Taylor-Davis political worry thinking I think there is always that kind of thing when you're opening that you just want to blow the headline band away. Simon Taylor-Davis band blow thinking I think it's a lot harder when you're opening. You really have to win people over. Simon Taylor-Davis winning people thinking I don't even know what success is. Simon Taylor-Davis knows It's a lot easier having a girlfriend in a band than if you were going out with someone that lived in London. Simon Taylor-Davis going-out band girlfriend You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion. Simon Taylor-Davis reviews opinion can-do I think that as a teenager in England, it's very hard to avoid Europe. You see Barcelona, and you see all those places as a youngster. You go there on school trips and everything, but America is like a different planet. Simon Taylor-Davis teenager school thinking It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix. Simon Taylor-Davis beats kind thinking I think that iTunes is opened up a whole new world to me, and I never thought it would. If you've got a day off in a hotel room, you can buy three albums and then they're there. It's kind of strange to have a relationship with that. Simon Taylor-Davis albums rooms thinking I kind of stopped buying vinyl because I'm always on the road and you can never listen to it. Simon Taylor-Davis vinyl buying kind It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love. Simon Taylor-Davis falling-in-love band writing The first show I ever saw was Meat Loaf, and it was on the Bat Out of Hell tour. Meat Loaf actually had a huge 20-foot bat behind him. Smoke came out of the bat's nose and his eyes glowed red - which is still one of the most mindblowing productions I've ever seen. Simon Taylor-Davis meat eye feet David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him]. Simon Taylor-Davis elements kind people
