Rupert Holmes Quotes

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• But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only…
• Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to…
• I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.
• I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living…
• I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new…
• I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a…
• In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing…
• As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to…
• I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.
• I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.
• A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
• The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth…
• I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.
• If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.
• I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.
• Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as…

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