English Quotes

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days.

A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.