Dave Allen Quotes
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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What are wits for unless a man uses them?
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Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.
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We live in a democratic country, and in a democracy freedom of speech is for the people and also for the leaders.
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Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
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So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
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Each album you make, each body of music, you just never know how the world's going to relate to it.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.
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I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.
