#l

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs. ↗

— Neil Innes

#learn #look #play #pubs #songs

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#away #beauty #causes #death #eternity

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success. ↗

— Neil Innes

#been #best #big #big success #cabaret

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on. ↗

— Neil Innes

#could #dead #grateful #grateful dead #just

We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious. ↗

— Neil Innes

#going #play #show-biz #weren

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds. ↗

— Neil Innes

#come #dancing #decided #did #here

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded. ↗

— Sean Parker

#ridiculously

There is no simple answer to what I think. ↗

— Sean Parker

#i #i think #simple #think

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#any #i #i am #prepared #president

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#color #matter #skin