Chris Lowe

Musician

1959-10-04

Chris Lowe is an English musician best known as one half of the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. He has been a key contributor to the group's songwriting and production since the 1980s.

Books by Chris Lowe

Teachers' rights, duties and responsibilities
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Quotes by Chris Lowe

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.
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Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.
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I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.
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There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and it's outdoors, and it's mainly Italians that go, and they all look great, and they're dancing on the tables, and life's a party, and they're totally into the music, going mental, and that's when dance music is really fantastic, I think.
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Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.
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Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.
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There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I don't say, 'Do you know who I am?', but sometimes I'm with someone who says it for you. Then, I pretend to be all, 'Oh, please don't shame me!'.
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Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
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