David Coverdale Quotes
I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.
Quotes to Explore
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
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Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture - a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.
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When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.
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I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.
