Klaus Nomi Quotes

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• A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.

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  Makeup, Men, Cake

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• I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales or in books. I think somewhere it is all around us. But nowadays we can think that this magic has been killed and I am try to make it survive as long as possible.

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  Nice, Book, Thinking

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• I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

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  Way, Outsiders, Break

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

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  Black, Lips, Planets

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• People do accuse me of being just decorative or an escapist - well I am. That's what I do. I am other things as well. I transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

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  Song, People, Giving

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

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  Giving, Music Is, Feels

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• I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

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  Wicked, Eras, Witch

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• 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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  Kids, People, Unhappy

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• 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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  Thinking, Issues, People

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• 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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  Fun, Nice, Holiday

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

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  People, Giving, Rooms

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• Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

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  Mother, Spiritual, Father

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• 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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  Art, Sound, Looks

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• 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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  Being Yourself, Teacher, Thinking

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• I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

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  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• 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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  People, Laughing, Looks

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• 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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  Simple, Innocence, Complicated

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• 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.

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  Voice, Style, Humans

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• 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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  Earth, Planets, Living On

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• 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.

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  Mother, Kings, Rocks

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

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  Jobs, Dirty, Boys

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

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  Moving, Moments, Amusing

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• I want to accomplish my work and fulfill my dreams, and do something with my life, and I hope I'll be able to accomplish it. It's very much work, but I like it.

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  Dream, Want, Able

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

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  Wells, Knows

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• I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.

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  Character, Rock And Roll, Voice

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