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...I'll never get sick of singing a song like Loyal in a concert. In one of my shows that's just accepted that I'll play it. And I will.
– Dave Dobbyn on performing on performing 'Loyal' live, Stuff, 19 November 2009
Three of us produced it and it was bit of a shambles, but the song survived. We do it much better live.
– Dave Dobbyn in The NZ Herald, 3 November 2001
Loyalty is more subdued passion, and maybe that's a New Zealand thing too. Being the somewhat quietly spoken, reserved people we can be, we don't feel so confident about going on a limb of the full 'I must have you' love songs. But here there's an honest blokiness about it which people in this part of the world can relate to.
– Musician and academic Graeme Downes speculates on why the song became a classic, The NZ Herald, 3 November 2001
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