Manfred Mann Quotes

Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.

Manfred Mann

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• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Like
  • Trouble

• I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Secret

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nobody

• I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Happy
  • Needs

• I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Party

• The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Risk
  • Ability
  • Happen

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Reality
  • Sad

• Call me crazy - I love elk meat!

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Crazy
  • Call
  • Meat

• I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Good
  • Picture

• The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Question

• It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • Support
  • Military
  • Members

• I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

  

  Anodea Judith
  • Life
  • Meaning
  • Aliveness

• Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Music
  • Art
  • Success