Klaus Kinski Quotes
You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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I love the concept of community energy.
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I love to play music.
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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
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I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
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Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.
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I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.
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I love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I love it.
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Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
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I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals.
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Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne'er so much.
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When once you have plunged into the strife for power, it is the fear of those who are seeking for power over you that so easily persuades to all the great crimes.
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He believed in walking beautifully, elegantly. It had to work as a kind of faith that he would get to the other side. He had fallen once while training - once exactly, so he felt it couldn't happen again, it was beyond possibility. A single flaw was necessary anyway. In any work of beauty there had to be one small thread left hanging.
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They are worse than the disinherited. They are not the has-beens, they are the never-weres.
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.
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Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?
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You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.
