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Curt Smith
English
Musician
Born:
Jun 24
,
1961
Me
Music
People
Think
Time
You
My father always worked away, and died when I was 17, but I hated him by that point. It hit me later in life, but back then I was teenage and angry.
Curt Smith
Life
Angry
Me
Father
Teenage
Back
Later
Hated
Point
Him
Always
Hit
Died
Then
Worked
Away
I like the country, the peace and quiet, because the music business is so hectic.
Curt Smith
Music
Business
Peace
Country
Music Business
Like
Because
Quiet
Hectic
Peace And Quiet
We've always been slammed by most of the British press. They probably hate us because we're too normal and incredibly honest.
Curt Smith
Hate
Too
British Press
Incredibly
Press
Most
Because
Always
Been
Normal
Us
Slammed
British
Honest
You know, if you ever listen to your voice on an answering machine everyone thinks we sound dreadful. That's sort of the way I think when I hear myself speak.
Curt Smith
Myself
You
Speak
Think
Everyone
I Think
Way
Machine
Dreadful
Voice
Know
Sort
Sound
Answering
Hear
Listen
Your
Ever
Thinks
Mad World's distinctive percussion intro was played on a Roland CR-78 drum machine. We first recorded it at twice the speed, but it sounded great slowed down.
Curt Smith
Great
World
First
Down
Speed
Machine
Distinctive
Mad
Recorded
Percussion
Drum
Twice
Played
I mean the joy of doing the 'Psych' thing I have to say, is that, you know, I'd met them beforehand, James Roday and Timothy Omundson specifically. I met Dule Hill when I got up there. But they're just, you know, a nice bunch of people.
Curt Smith
You
People
Joy
Met
Nice
Say
Know
Hill
Got
Doing
Beforehand
Up
Bunch
Just
James
Mean
Them
Specifically
Thing
We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.
Curt Smith
Home
Writing
Getting Older
Older
Teenager
Our
Say
I Can
Kind
About
General
More
Angst
Both
Songwriter
Instead
Talking
Felt
Leave
Passionate
Issues
Getting
Just
Children
Now
Specific
Starting
Japanese Breakfast has recorded a beautiful, ethereal reimagining of 'Head Over Heels.'
Curt Smith
Beautiful
Breakfast
Recorded
Head
Over
Heels
Japanese
I don't believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.
Curt Smith
Tears
Fears
Believe
Genre
Pigeonholed
Decade
Done
I think a truly fantastic video is worth it. We spend so much time on the music, it only makes sense to have a really well-done visual translation of that music.
Curt Smith
Music
Time
Worth
Sense
Translation
Think
Spend
I Think
Worth It
Visual
Only
Makes
Truly
So Much Time
Fantastic
Video
Much
Really
I see bands that have been around for a long time who go through the motions. They're tired and they shouldn't really be doing it any more. We are doing it because we like it.
Curt Smith
Time
Tired
Long
Long Time
I See
See
More
Through
Like
Because
Around
Motions
Doing
Go
Been
Bands
Any
Really
Who
More than anything else, being famous just didn't agree with me.
Curt Smith
Me
Else
More
More Than Anything
Than
Just
Being
Famous
Anything
Anything Else
Being Famous
Agree
We are lucky to have had the longevity we've had, garnering new people. I've even become cool to my daughters' friends.
Curt Smith
People
Become
Daughters
Had
New
Longevity
New People
Friends
Cool
Lucky
Even
The only formula we have when we work together is that we both have to have a product we can endorse when we finish. Something we both like. It's a matter of compromise. In the end what you get is what both of us can agree on. In that comes Tears for Fears. I don't know what the mix or magic is, that's just what it is.
Curt Smith
Work
You
Together
Matter
Tears
Fears
Magic
Something
Finish
Only
Compromise
Both
Like
Know
Mix
End
Get
Endorse
Just
In The End
Formula
Work Together
Us
Product
Agree
My daughters prefer Tears for Fears songs as they're more upbeat and generic. Dad's songs are 'a little too sad' for them, which just means that they're harder to understand.
Curt Smith
Sad
Tears
Fears
Too
More
Daughters
Songs
Generic
Understand
Upbeat
Just
Which
Little
Prefer
Them
Means
Dad
Harder
The nature of Tears For Fears was there was always two of us.
Curt Smith
Nature
Tears
Fears
Always
Us
Two
At the height of our fame, we didn't see anything. We didn't leave the hotel because we were doing interviews all day. We may have traveled the world, but we saw nothing.
Curt Smith
Day
World
Nothing
Our
Interviews
Saw
All Day
See
Hotel
Because
Leave
Doing
Were
Fame
May
Anything
Height
Traveled
I view making records as a journey.
Curt Smith
Journey
Records
Making
View
Having lawyers involved never leads to good things.
Curt Smith
Good
Good Things
Having
Lawyers
Never
Leads
Involved
Things
When I get some time off, I don't even want to see people half the time.
Curt Smith
Time
People
Half
See
Some
Half The Time
Off
Get
Want
Even
I hate touring beyond measure. I don't like all the travelling and the hotel rooms. But the hour and a half on stage each night keep me going.
Curt Smith
Me
Hate
Half
Stage
Touring
Hotel
Hotel Rooms
Hour
Like
Hour And A Half
Beyond
Going
Rooms
Measure
Each
Keep
Each Night
Travelling
Night
To be honest, I've been back to Atlanta a couple of times, I can't remember what for. One for a big conference, a radio conference. I feel like it's a vibrant place. It has a vibrant music scene.
Curt Smith
Music
Remember
Big
To Be Honest
Back
Music Scene
I Feel
I Feel Like
Atlanta
Scene
Feel
Like
Couple
Been
Times
Conference
Vibrant
Place
Radio
Honest
Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.
Curt Smith
Every
Our
Lazy
Over
Like
Get
Again
Album
Career
Starting
We rushed to finish the album when 'Mad World' became a hit. The pressure was on and it stopped being as enjoyable as it had been; in the end, it wasn't enjoyable at all.
Curt Smith
World
Pressure
Mad
Rushed
Finish
Had
Became
Been
End
Hit
Stopped
Being
In The End
Enjoyable
Album
It's definitely a joy when you make a record to know you are doing it for the right reasons: You want to do it and that you think you have something valid to offer.
Curt Smith
You
Joy
Think
Valid
Right Reasons
Definitely
Record
Something
Know
Make
Doing
Offer
Want
Reasons
Right
I think people forget even though we were labelled a synth band because of 'The Hurting,' but keyboards are not our native instruments. Roland's a guitar player and I'm a bass player.
Curt Smith
People
Guitar
Band
Think
Bass
Bass Player
Keyboards
Our
I Think
Synth
Though
Guitar Player
Hurting
Instruments
Because
Were
Labelled
Forget
Native
Even
Player
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