Gypsy Quotes

• I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

  John Masefield

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  'Sea Fever' (1902)

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

  Brittany Murphy

  Memories, Cities, People

  57 Copy quote

• I move around a lot. Ive lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.

  Hilarie Burton

  Moving, Two, Curiosity

  FaceBook post by Hilarie Burton from Mar 02, 2016

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• For gypsies do not like to stay -
  They only come to go away.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Going Away

  11 Copy quote

• It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

  Franz Liszt

  Fusion, Impossible, Imagine

  33 Copy quote

• Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

  Paul McCartney

  Philosophy, Feet, Littles

  Song: Uncle Albert, Album: Ram

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• On tour I'm finding out that I am half gypsy, 40% vagabond, and 10 house cat.

  Jason Reeves

  Cat, House, Vagabonds

  Source: itcouldbemainstream.blogspot.com

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

  Robert W. Service

  Travel, Heart, Men

  Robert William Service, “The Men That Don't Fit In”

  70 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Philosophical, Soul, Wake Up

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Light, Mystery, Spells

  Song: Luna's Gone, Album: Between Here and Gone, 2004

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The white moth to the closing vine,
  The bee to the open clover,
  And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood
  Ever the wide world over.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Blood, White

  11 Copy quote

• Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the joy of it, a blaze of roughhewn wood like a child's laugh, a symbol of the eternity that preceded human thought, a free fire, a gift from heaven, a living sign of the elements unnoticed by the world-weary pedestrian, a fire in the ditches of Prague warming the wanderer's eye and soul.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Children, Eye, Fire

  11 Copy quote

• I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.

  Neil Diamond

  Lost, Wander, Havens

  5 Copy quote

• I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

  Delta Goodrem

  Writing, Needs

  17 Copy quote

• Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

  Ann Wilson

  Art, Player, Fire

  FaceBook post by Ann Wilson from Nov 12, 2013

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ghost?” St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. “Christ. You’re not serious, are you?” "I’m a Gypsy,” Cam replied matter-of-factly. “Of course I believe in ghosts.” “Only half Gypsy. Which led me to assume that the rest of you was at least marginally sane and rational.” “The other half is Irish,” Cam said a touch apologetically. “Christ,” St. Vincent said again, shaking his head as he strode away.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Believe, Half, Matter

  4 Copy quote

• Flamenco is Arabic music and rhythms filtered through centuries of gypsies making music. The gypsies themselves came originally from India. And then there is the Caribbean influences... This whole idea that there is any such thing in music that "purity" is bunk, it just doesn't exist. I love that I am playing these rhythms to people. And the next time they hear something that's maybe a little more exotic, I have created a little bridge, and they are going, "Oh, this actually sounds really cool. It reminds me a little bit of that, but it's something different."

  Ottmar Liebert

  People, Different, Influence

  Source: to.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.

  Anais Nin

  Fall, Clothes, Bed

  18 Copy quote

• I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

  Cher Lloyd

  Roots, Helping, My Own

  "Cher Lloyd: 'I don't want to be a joke'". Interview With Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2011.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Scared, Attractive, Apostles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.245, Harvard University Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

  Natalia Makarova

  Mother, Know How, Knows

  7 Copy quote

• And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Soul, Want

  Song: Into The Mystic

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.

  Kate Magowan

  Dance, Communication, Heart

  10 Copy quote

• And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

  Robert James Waller

  Knowledge, Remember, Minstrels

  Robert James Waller (1990). “One good road is enough: essays”, Wiley-Blackwell

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Outsiders, Faces

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

  20 Copy quote

  Show source