Quotes by Rupert Holmes - Page 1

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Facts
Want
Wanted
Fact
In Fact
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A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Careers
Plot
Song
Career
Early
Narratives
Plots
Story
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I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Firsts
Musical
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I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Low Self Esteem
Want
Way
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I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Relationship
Song
Tired
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Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Caught
Champagne
Rain
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Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Cab Drivers
Song
Writing
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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.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Quality
Making Love
Midnight
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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 all inherited.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Interesting
Thinking
Writing
Infinitely
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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 career.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Aggravation
Careers
Performing
Triumph
Years
Assaulted
Audience Member
Consider
Member
Singular
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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.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Add
Cream
Defeat
Ice
Ice Cream
Life Success Death
Bitten
Butter
Jaws
Rush
Success Is
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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 manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasnt even in the running for failure!
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Running
Albums
Firsts
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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 manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Copies
Critics
Darling
Wide
Bought
Screen
Thankfully
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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 because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Character
Give Me
Giving
Real
Royalty
Type
Time Me Keep
Time Me Living
Fast
Real Time
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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 going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Fun
Theatre
Years
Element
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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 way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Amusing
Behave
Character
Consolation
Farce
Knowing
Mind
Outrageous
Always Mind Keep
Dilemmas
Finds
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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 I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Vacation
Busy
Careers
First Time
Firsts
Time Work Me
Discover
Work Time Busy
Intrigues
Medium
Vacations
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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 guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Clubs
Concerts
Halls
Rocks
Song
Teens
Truth Is
Writing
Everywhere
Arenas
Guarantee
Initially
Singer Songwriter
Performed
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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 know anybody else named Rudyard. But having been bitten in my life 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.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Add
Ice Cream
Victory And Defeat
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