QUOTES

Rip It Up, Issue 242, 1 October 1997, Page 5

QUOTES

“We are sort of like Wham!, but with two Andrew Ridgeleys - because neither of us can sing or grow a beard.” Young gun RICHARD MARCH . of BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE. “Rock music is really a show, it’s really Vegas and it’s not anything more than that. Its vaudeville." FAITH NO MORE’S MIKE PATTON isn’t : taking his trade too seriously. “I saw one old woman with her fingers so far in her ears, they were massaging her brain.” CRYSTAL METHOD’S SCOTT KIRKLAND on techno tour volume. “Well, it was ecstasy. It was like an ecstatic vision, pure joy; it was the sound of life itself. Just like Aretha [Franklin] is the sound of God. Jeff was the sound of well, it was very sexual, actually.” MARIANNE FAITHFULL on friend . JEFF BUCKLEY. “You almost as pretty as me.” . MUHAMMED ALI to Ali-wannabe - WILL SMITH. “We have no respect for Diana Spencer or any member of the English Royal Family. .. Anti-monarchists PRIMAL SCREAM deny they their cancelled London gigs due to ‘respect’. “There are plenty of good actors now, wonderful actors — De Niro is one of the best actors we have, but he is short. Dustin Hoffman is tiny. Brad Pitt is small. Vai Kilmer is small — very strange. Someone should do research on what happened to tall actors.” CHARLTON HESTON (72) answers the question — Are there any actors left in Hollywood whom he looks up to? “They give you an embarrassing amount of money to wave your arms in front of an orchestra.” Why BURT BACHARACH plays Vegas J casinos. “Oh my God. I’ve been around so long I’ve met myself coming back!” DOLLY PARTON on being 50. “Girls are weird. Why do they do that?” JESSICA HANSON (9) on girls freaking out when they meet her brothers. “I only got the idea 48 hours ago. One billion is a good round number." CNN founder TED TURNER explains his billion dollar donation to the United Nations. “My own specialities were beginnings, endings and solos.” GEORGE MARTIN on producing the Beatles. “l am not working with people so I can go over to their house and go swimming. The only thing I need is their funds so I can get my message to a greater audience. That’s the bottom line.” Gospel dude KIRK FRANKLIN on life at gangsta rap haven Interscope. “I’ve hung around a lot of studio executives to learn how to be evil.” SCHWARZENEGGER on researching his Batman role. k v,...