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[about his wife] Frank Alexander: She was very badly raped, you see! We were assaulted by a gang of vicious, young, hoodlums in this house! In this very room you are sitting in now! I was left a helpless cripple, but for her the agony was too great! ...
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I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, an...
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The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.
As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.
I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.
It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
