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Gary Numan Quotes

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

Gary Numan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: March 8, 1958

Topics

Friends Fame First Two Contract Hit

We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.

Johan Santana

History Together Team Made Tonight

I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.

John Otto

Play Swing Hand Take Lines Left

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

Meryl Streep

Space Earth Things Like Suspended

No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead.

Stavros Niarchos

Oil Coal He Wants Stoke Regulate

The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't last long in college.

Miranda July

Moment College Book Pressure Feel

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

Douglas Alexander

People You Newspaper Talk Read Most

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

Christopher Lee

Imagination You Edge Kind See Leave

As long as my mouth, hands, and brain still work, I'll be out there doing it. I'm going to keep going 'til I'm not there anymore. This is what's keeping me alive and feeling young and inspired.

Clarence Clemons

Work Keep Going Me Brain Doing Long

Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.

Chrystia Freeland

Music Relationship Power War Moving

Country music's always had the best musicians in any format of music, and I always gravitated toward that, stuff that was musically interesting.

Brad Paisley

Music Best Musicians Interesting Any

It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to try to do different things - change what I write about, and also the way I write. Otherwise, I'd just be repeating myself, which wouldn't be good for me or fair to my readers.

William T. Vollmann

Change Good Myself Fun Me Think

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

Suzanne Somers

Career Television Done Three Company