Neil Innes Quotes

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

Neil Innes

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• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Live
  • Community
  • Communication

• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Book
  • Experience
  • Man

• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Will
  • Stand

• I think twerking is overrated.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Overrated

• Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Idea

• When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Want
  • Me
  • Inspired

• In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Better
  • Songs
  • Exciting

• It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Street

• I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • You
  • Famous
  • Theory

• I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Intelligence
  • Reform
  • Context

• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Night
  • Nice
  • Day

• No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Work
  • Interested
  • Harder

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Creativity
  • Just
  • Motherhood

• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Sock

• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Secret
  • Perseverance

• Why not show off if you've got something to show?

  

  January Jones
  • Why

• Oh well, when I was younger I was known for breaking hearts. I am the kind of person that falls passionately in love but then a couple of months down the line, I fall out of love.

  

  Jenna Jameson
  • Fall
  • Couple

• She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow known exactly what she'd needed to hear. When their eyes locked, she once again realized how special he was. And just for a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Moments
  • Eye
  • Summer

• All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I want people to know that I'm not just another kid M.C. I'm actually a fan of good music and hip-hop.

  

  Astro
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Music
  • Gentleman