And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.
I remember once, years ago, I met Sting, and he told me that he had seen 'Spinal Tap' 50 times. He said: 'Every time I watch it, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.'
There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.
I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.
There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.
I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.
I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.
That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.
I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.
Music documentaries are tricky because of 'Spinal Tap.' That movie has stood the test of time.
My biggest 'Spinal Tap' moment was a stupid one as well. When we were rehearsing for the Zeppelin O2 gig, I was having an argument with my drum pedals. I actually took them outside, and drove over them several times with the car. Shouting at them and telling them they'll never work again.
I'm really fond of 'Real Life' because I think it anticipated a whole movement. And people forget, they talk about 'Spinal Tap,' but that wasn't... this was a mockumentary a long time before that. It was one of the early, early sort of mockumentaries.
The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!
I've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy.
I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.