Vivian Stanshall Quotes

• I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Thinking, Being Different, Sake

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• A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Girl, Glasses, Shadow

  "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Comedy recording by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.

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• If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Drink, Ifs

  "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Comedy recording by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.

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• Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

  Vivian Stanshall

  Letting Go, Said, Let Me

  "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Comedy recording by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.

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• Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

  Vivian Stanshall

  Different, Unusual

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• If you see something you don't understand, smash it.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Ifs

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• Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Party, Gay, Sausage

  "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Album by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.

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• I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!

  Vivian Stanshall

  Want, Knows

  "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Album by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.

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• If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Normal, Freak, Ifs

  "Song: 'My Pink Half of the Drainpipe' ('The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse')". 1968.

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• Fear is the root of all courage.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Roots

  "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Comedy recording by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.

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• Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Apology, Years, Two

  "Song: 'Mr. Apollo'". 1969.

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• Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.

  Vivian Stanshall

  "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Album by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.

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• I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Men, Mets

  "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Comedy recording by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.

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