Top 24 Klaus Nomi Quotes
#1. People are so nice to each other on holidays ... especially at Christmas. Why don't people beat up each other at Christmas? Now that would be fun!
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#2. When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.
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#3. The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.
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#4. I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.
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#5. I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.
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#6. Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.
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#7. I think I do have my own technique. I don't like to depend on teachers. So I'm walking on my own way, and I try to be as natural as I can. I think it's the only way to be yourself.
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#8. I'd like to thank everyone for supporting me and making me believe in my work.
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#9. What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.
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#10. My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.
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#11. I go on stage and people like what I look like; as soon as I'm outside I feel like I have to hide, because people laugh at me, because of the way I look. Now, I use this look, it works for me, I even exaggerate it. I used to hide my large forehead, but now I'm selling it.
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#12. I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.
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#13. I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning.
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#14. Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.
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#15. The way I look it is hard to look like a normal person. You know, in the streets when I was a kid, people always said I looked strange, and it made me feel unhappy.
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#16. I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.
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#17. The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful.
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#18. I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.
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#19. There are moments in my show that are very moving as well as amusing.
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#20. People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension.
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#21. It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.
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#22. It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.
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#23. Well, you know, I am in the business and I like to promote myself.
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#24. I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.
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