Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don’t express that freedom on a public platform.
Meaning of the quote
The quote suggests that while Russians now have more freedom, they are still not allowed to openly share their thoughts and opinions in public. This means that even though they are no longer as strictly controlled as before, they are still not truly free to express themselves freely and openly, especially in public spaces or forums.
About Marc Almond
Marc Almond is an English singer best known for his work with the synth-pop/new wave duo Soft Cell and his distinctive soulful voice. He has had a diverse and successful solo career, collaborating with artists like Gene Pitney, and has sold over 30 million records worldwide. Despite a near-fatal motorcycle accident in 2004, Almond’s career has spanned over four decades and earned him critical and commercial acclaim, including an OBE for his contributions to the arts.
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Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I mean whatever I do it’s important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I’m doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.
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I think there’s always been singers like that and i’ve done my fair share of cheese as well.
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It’s a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.
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I don’t really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
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That’s the way I work and one day I won’t have the energy to do it, so I think it’s always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don’t have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
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That’s what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I don’t enjoy being a celebrity, I don’t want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame… i’d actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!
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I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don’t express that freedom on a public platform.
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We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
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For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I’m very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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