Buarque Chico Quotes

#1. Of all my relations, I like sex the best and Eric the least.

Roger Zelazny

#2. Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

Archibald MacLeish

#4. I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.

Chico Buarque

#5. Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

Chico Buarque

#6. Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.

Chico Buarque

#7. A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is also an enemy of the reality that following Jesus is a journey, not an arrival.

Steve Stockman

#8. He breathed like an old Ford with a leaky head gasket.

Raymond Chandler

#9. Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.

Chico Buarque

#10. It shocks me how easily people believe the worst, how quick they are to point fingers and lay blame, and, sadly, how silent when at last they learn the truth

Caroline Pignat

#11. Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.

Chico Buarque

#12. Most people know my music but will never read my books.

Chico Buarque

#13. You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.

Warren Buffett

#14. A crown should not sit easy on the head.

George R R Martin

#15. You are strong enough to go without.

Ally Condie

#16. The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner.

Denise Scott Brown

#17. There's good news out of Africa. Not all of Africa. But from a large part of Africa that quietly, with little fanfare, is on the move. ('Emerging Africa', 2010)

Steven Radelet

#18. Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

Chico Buarque

#19. A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

Sophocles

#20. The waitress looked a little awkward. "Is all that for both you and your sister?

J.R. Ward

#21. Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it's true, and look at the results.

Michael Mann

#22. In the arts there are many right answers.

Jerry Uelsmann

#23. (Hungarian ... ) the only tongue the devil respects

Chico Buarque