"Having in my life been bitten by the……" — Rupert Holmes
"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 butter pecan ice cream is to death."
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16 Quotes by Rupert Holmes
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But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling - everyone raved about it, but no…
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Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none…
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I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.
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I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to…
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I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time…
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I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas,…
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In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the…
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As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're…
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I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.
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I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've…
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A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
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The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to…
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