Klaus Nomi Quotes

#1. It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

Klaus Nomi

#2. Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.

Plutarch

#3. Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. IN EGGPLANT CASSEROLE,

Julia Child

#7. The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful.

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#8. I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.

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#9. There are moments in my show that are very moving as well as amusing.

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#10. People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension.

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#11. I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

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#12. She points to where he went and looks to the neutral Baumen. "He - he did that to me on purpose! He's insane. Literally, insane!"
The munchkin just shrugs. "Welcome aboard!" and returns unconcerned to his work.

Nathan Reese Maher

#13. 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.

Klaus Nomi

#14. This is our second date."
"Some date. Fighting for our lives."
"We'll be fine," he said, without conviction.
"Yes." She sounded no more certain. "Next time, we'll go someplace nice.

Max Gladstone

#15. Well, you know, I am in the business and I like to promote myself.

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#16. Some things, the best things, do last forever

Kiersten White

#17. My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.

Stephen Lang

#18. I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.

Klaus Nomi

#19. It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.

Laini Taylor

#20. All crisis have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#21. 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.

Klaus Nomi

#22. I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

Oscar Levant

#23. Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined ... they are individuals in their own right.

Jane Goodall

#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

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#27. A nigger that ain't afraid to die is the worse kind of nigger for the white man. He can't hold that power over you. That's what I learned when I killed that cat. I got the power of death too.

August Wilson

#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. I'd like to thank everyone for supporting me and making me believe in my work.

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#32. 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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#33. Jasper!" Casey shouts, startling the young woman. "My cargo is talking to me!

Nathan Reese Maher

#34. In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

Steve Martin

#35. My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.

Klaus Nomi

#36. 12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Anonymous

#37. 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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#38. I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

Klaus Nomi