#their

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#character #choose #emerge #going #i

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#elvis #elvis presley #far #frank #frank sinatra

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #certainly #emulate #hand #i

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #between #book #course #drunkards

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them. ↗

— Neil Young

#course #doing #expected #just #kids

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention. ↗

— Neil Young

#attention #came #ears #friends #god

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father. ↗

— Toby Young

#classic #difficult #down #father #find

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#die #jewish #men #their #want

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#interferes #jews #suffering #their #why

If you have a guy like Jermaine, it's a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they throw themselves on the floor and take off their hats. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#floor #guy #had #hats #him