“I definitely love to talk to my men...I want to see how I feel, how they feel.” Quote by Frances Ruffelle
“It's fun! Just fun...I don't think of it as a cabaret act per se, I call it more of a gig, if that makes any sense” IfsThinkingFunGigsCabaret Author:Frances Ruffelle
“A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there was a band in London called the BBC Big Band, and I sang with them. And I had never done a big band before, and it was just so fantastic and I had such a good time...so that's how it all came about” KindDoneBigsParentListeningGrewBandGrew UpMusic IsLondonFantasticGood Times Author:Frances Ruffelle
“It was a long time ago. I was talking to a friend about astrology, and he mentioned the Seth books. I'd never heard of them, but I intuitively knew they were important to me. It sounds very romantic, but it really was like that. I took an interest in them right away for no reason.” LongImportantBookReasonSoundInterestTalkingHeardLong TimeNo ReasonAstrologyLong Time AgoVery Romantic Author:Francis Dunnery
“I've spent the last few years really trying to come out of that belief system. Speaking mythologically, it's like Beauty and the Beast. The beast kidnaps the beauty until she learns to love him for who he is. In a sense, our negative beliefs kidnap our greatness, our life-force. We have to go and kiss them.” TryingYearsLastsBeliefForceOur LivesGreatnessKissingNegativeBeastBelief SystemsNegative Beliefs Author:Francis Dunnery
“I think when you leave a band in any situation that you are a part of.. I mean, when I was with It Bites I was a quarter of something, and when I was with Robert Plant I was a sixth of some- thing and when you leave you become the whole thing. So just after you spend time realizing what you are, and it just happened that I was doing that in my life as well as musically, it kind of happened at the same time. I was getting to a point in my life where I was beginning to realize who I am, and I like me.” ThinkingWellsKindMeanWholeRealizingSituationHappenedBandPlantWho I AmLike MeBitesQuartersEnd TimesSpend Time Author:Francis Dunnery
“I used to play the drums. When I was 11 I got my first professional job, I played drums in a cabary and played Elvis and stuff, I used to play left handed actually. Then I started to pick up the guitar when I was around 15, but I played the drums for a long time.” FirstsLongPlayJobsUsedLeftStuffLong TimePicksGuitarLeft Handed Author:Francis Dunnery
“I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.” MenTryingTwoHappensSongCausesFiveWrittenMinutesHavensHeroCallingAngelThirdsRuinsPianoOld ManBitesFive Minutes Author:Francis Dunnery
“I did all the usual things. I think I did everything that everybody else does. I did auditions. I went to see people. I went to see the right people in some instances, the wrong people in others. The wrong time in others. The right time in others. Nothing seemed to make any difference. I quit 5 times! I always went back to try again when circumstances came around to it.” PeopleThinkingTryingDoeDifferencesCircumstancesQuittingInstanceUsualAuditionsRight TimeTry AgainI QuitWrong Time Author:Frankie Laine
“I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play a couple of songs on guitar. You don't really need to be able to play to compose. There are many composers and arrangers who work out of their heads.” NeedsI CanPlayAbleSongFoolCoupleInstrumentsGuitarWork OutPianoComposer Author:Frankie Laine
“The lack of quality dance music and the fact that here in the United States, house music is not seen as anything viable by the music industry. I figured that this might be another shot at the industry looking at the possibilities of house music and giving it a little bit more legitimacy than what they give it. It's a host of different things, but it's something that I needed to say musically.” GivingLittlesDifferentStatesFactsMightHouseBitsUnitedQualityUnited StatesPossibilityIndustryNeededLittle BitMusic IsShotsDifferent ThingsHostMusic IndustryLegitimacyDance MusicHouse Music Author:Frankie Knuckles