Encores Quotes

#1. You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

Elvis Presley

#2. It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

Pete Townshend

#3. I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

Joseph Roth

#4. He was wearing glasses. Who was he, Clark Kent? No one looked this good all the time. It just wasn't possible.

Lily Paradis

#5. A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

Colin Hay

#7. I don't like doing 25 songs. I think that just kills the audience. I think the show should be 17, 18, 19 songs and encores.

Bun E. Carlos

#8. If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

Baal Shem Tov

#9. I've always been enchanted by the endings of things. Series finales and sunsets. Last paragraphs and encores. I think for the way they remind me that losing something you love isn't always sad and heartbreaking, but sometimes breathtaking and beautiful.

Beau Taplin

#10. I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.

Douglas Carter Beane

#11. 'Encores!' is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.

Kate Baldwin

#12. Rappers on their sophomores ... actin' like they boss lords.
Fame's such a funny thing for sure when niggas start believing all those encores.

Pusha T

#13. I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

Bill Dixon

#14. Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#15. The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

Leni Riefenstahl

#16. When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.

Andre Rieu

#17. Being the "best you can be" is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

Sue Johnson