Chico Buarque Quotes

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

Chico Buarque

#2. Breaking, in modern psychology, 'learned helplessness.' This is where you crush an animal's desire to fight. Why is it that we believe broken things are tamed possessions?

Rebecca K. O'Connor

#3. 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

#4. Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#5. It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

L.M. Montgomery

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

Chico Buarque

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

Chico Buarque

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

Chico Buarque

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Chico Buarque

#12. Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

Serena Williams

#13. Thrash her, thrash her! Why have you stopped? shouted voices in the crowd.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky