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It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.
Wintley Phipps / Vocalizer
Dream
Daughter
Encouraging
God
Inspirational
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The marines gave me an eternal discipline.
Huey Morgan / Vocalizer
Discipline
Eternal
Marine
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I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Eras
Wicked
Witch
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A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Men
Cake
Makeup
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Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.
Wintley Phipps / Vocalizer
Mountain
Smooth
Son
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Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Honestly
Moving
Sometimes
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I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Different
Giving
Song
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Well, you know, I am in the business and I like to promote myself.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Knows
Wells
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There are moments in my show that are very moving as well as amusing.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Amusing
Moments
Moving
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Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.
Huey Morgan / Vocalizer
Band
Marine
Want
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Love the vocal on Lightning. Overall great EP. We Sink is a favorite as well.
Todd Edwards / Vocalizer
Lightning
Vocal
Wells
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It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Germany
Opera
Sopranos
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I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Jobs
Boys
Dirty
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The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
One Day
Strong
Successful
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I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Break
Outsiders
Way
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My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Feels
Giving
Music Is
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Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Father
Mother
Spiritual
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The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Art
Looks
Sound
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People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Giving
People
Rooms
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I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Black
Lips
Planets
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I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.
Huey Morgan / Vocalizer
Opportunity
Marine
Thinking
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Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Records
Rock And Roll
Rocks
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You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.
Todd Edwards / Vocalizer
Rest Of Your Life
Trying
Years
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I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Earth
Living On
Planets
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People are so nice to each other on holidays...especially at Christmas. Why don't people beat up each other at Christmas? Now that would be fun!
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Fun
Holiday
Nice
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It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Humans
Style
Voice
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When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Kings
Mother
Rocks
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You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.
Todd Edwards / Vocalizer
Long
Memories
Song
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What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Complicated
Innocence
Simple
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I want to accomplish my work and fulfill my dreams, and do something with my life, and I hope I'll be able to accomplish it. It's very much work, but I like it.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Dream
Able
Want
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I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Rock And Roll
Rocks
Thinking
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The way I look it is hard to look like a normal person. You know, in the streets when I was a kid, people always said I looked strange, and it made me feel unhappy.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Kids
People
Unhappy
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People do accuse me of being just decorative or an escapist - well I am. That's what I do. I am other things as well. I transcend the song and give it a different meaning.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Giving
People
Song
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I think I do have my own technique. I don't like to depend on teachers. So I'm walking on my own way, and I try to be as natural as I can. I think it's the only way to be yourself.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Teacher
Being Yourself
Thinking
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I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Issues
People
Thinking
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I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales or in books. I think somewhere it is all around us. But nowadays we can think that this magic has been killed and I am try to make it survive as long as possible.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Book
Nice
Thinking
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I go on stage and people like what I look like; as soon as I'm outside I feel like I have to hide, because people laugh at me, because of the way I look. Now, I use this look, it works for me, I even exaggerate it. I used to hide my large forehead, but now I'm selling it.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Laughing
Looks
People
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While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse was happening. I wanted to be part of the Women's Aid Real Man campaign to send out the message that real men don't abuse their partners or their children.
Huey Morgan / Vocalizer
Children
Growing Up
Real
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I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.
Klaus Nomi / Vocalizer
Character
Rock And Roll
Voice
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