Gene Pitney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

  • I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

  • Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

  • The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

  • I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

  • The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."

  • People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.

  • I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

  • My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

  • I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.