"Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets."

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Source : "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

Bernie Taupin

#Real Quotes #Insult Quotes #Poet Quotes

“It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some ways, I'm probably more likely to get into a fight, because I feel more competent, and I know what it's cost me in the past to back down from fights, and I don't want to feel that way.”
“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.”
“Small things lead to big changes.”
“Why do people watch fights?... They watch it for inspiration.”
“Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”
“Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films.”

Source : "Polanski has served his time and must be freed" by Harvey Weinstein, www.independent.co.uk. September 28, 2009.
“If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.”
“I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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