Eugene Manlove Rhodes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

  • Every generation tailors history to its taste.

  • People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  • If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.

  • And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.

  • I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

  • While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

  • It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

  • I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

  • I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.