Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Rupert Holmes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English composer Rupert Holmes.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

David Goldstein, better known as Rupert Holmes, is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, dramatist and author. He is widely known for the hit singles "Escape " (1979) and "Him" (1980). He is also known for his musicals The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which earned him two Tony Awards, and Curtains, and for his television series Remember WENN.

English - Composer | Born: February 24, 1947

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The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

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Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

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A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

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As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

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I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

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I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

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I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.

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I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

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I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty.

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In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

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I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

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But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!

Rupert Holmes

Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to know anybody else named Rudyard. But having been bitten in my life by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

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Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

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I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

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Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

Rupert Holmes

But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasnt even in the running for failure!

Rupert Holmes