Alan Cumming Quotes
If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.
