Rod Stewart Quotes

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

Rod Stewart

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• It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.

  

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• You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

  

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• Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'

  

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• I am an Indian, so I do yoga.

  

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• And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

  

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• My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Father
  • Taught
  • Finance