"I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry."

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Source : "Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock'n'roll Revolutionaries". Book by John Collis, p. 181, 2004.

Gene Vincent

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“My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.”

Source : "Despicable me". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.
“Greatest American Hero, I really dug that as a kid, because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.”
“Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.”
“Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?”
“What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.”
“It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.”
“In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform Oh Jean.”
“The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure.”

Source : 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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