Spinal Tap famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.
-- Ben Stiller

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I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.
-- Matthew McGrory

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I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.
-- Nina Blackwood

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I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.
-- Nina Blackwood

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I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
-- Robert Wyatt

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We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.
-- Roger Daltrey

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I take a lot of pitches. Some guys hate to do that.
I had no musical training at all.
On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations!
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh....
We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.
I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history â€“ true or feignedâ€“ with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere.
Come and relax now, put your troubles down. No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away.