Memorable Quotes from Harry Shearer
10 quotesDiscussion on Vinyl Records and Their Quality
Alan Barrows
And they had no hole in the center of the record.
Mark Shubb
It would teeter crazily on the little spindle.
Jerry Palter
No, you had to provide it yourself. They were still good records. Good product.
Mark Shubb
If you punched a hole in them, you'd have a good time.
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Misunderstandings About Stage Props and Performance
David St. Hubbins
I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.
Ian Faith
I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it.
Derek Smalls
Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea.
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The Moose Metaphor in Rock Music
Marty DiBergi
Do you feel that playing rock n roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state of arrested development?
Derek Smalls
No. No. No. I feel it's like, it's more like going, going to a, a national park or something. And there's, you know, they preserve the moose. And that's, that's my childhood up there on stage. That moose, you know.
Marty DiBergi
So when you're playing you feel like a preserved moose on stage?
Derek Smalls
Yeah.
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Political Commentary on Youth and Truth
Bob Haldeman
I have met yams with more going on upstairs than these two.
Bob Haldeman
You wanna complain about Vietnam? Talk to Johnson!
Mrs. Spinnler
Every lie is another brick in the pathway to hell.
G. Gordon Liddy
Children! Running around, all hours of the night! When you kids grow up, you'll be living in the Soviet Union of America!
[Surprised by Betsy and Arlene in the Watergate stairwell]
Chip
Figures that the pain in my ass is Nixon, the fascist.
[After sticking himself with an election pin]
Larry
Whatever she's on, I didn't give it to her.
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The Concept of Retro in Music
Mark Shubb
To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.
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Identity and Recognition in Unexpected Encounters
G. Gordon Liddy
Young lady, I am a very busy man...
Betsy
Hey, you look familiar. Have I seen you before?
Betsy
Are you that guy that sells corn dogs at the mall?
G. Gordon Liddy
As far as you are concerned, young lady, I have no identity. In fact, I'm not even here...
[sinister]
Betsy
He's way weirder than corndog guy.
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Discussion of Past Drummers in Spinal Tap
Marty DiBergi
Now, during the Flower People period, who was your drummer?
David St. Hubbins
Stumpy's replacement, Peter James Bond. He also died in mysterious circumstances. We were playing a, uh...
Nigel Tufnel
...Festival.
David St. Hubbins
Jazz blues festival. Where was that?
Nigel Tufnel
Blues jazz, really.
Derek Smalls
Blues jazz festival. Misnamed.
Nigel Tufnel
It was in the Isle of, uh...
David St. Hubbins
Isle of Lucy. The Isle of Lucy jazz and blues festival.
Nigel Tufnel
And, uh, it was tragic, really. He exploded on stage.
Derek Smalls
Just like that.
David St. Hubbins
He just went up.
Nigel Tufnel
He just was like a flash of green light... And that was it. Nothing was left.
David St. Hubbins
Look at his face.
[about Marty]
Nigel Tufnel
Well, there was...
David St. Hubbins
It's true, this really did happen.
Nigel Tufnel
It's true. There was a little green globule on his drum seat.
David St. Hubbins
Like a stain, really.
Nigel Tufnel
It was more of a stain than a globule, actually.
David St. Hubbins
You know, several, you know, dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported.
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Customs Inquiry About Artificial Limbs
Customs Officer
Do you have any artificial plates or limbs?
Derek Smalls
Not really, no.
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Balancing Visionaries in a Band Dynamic
Derek Smalls
We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like ] and ]. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.
[[Percy Shelley|Shelley; [Lord Byron|Byron]
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Embracing Change and True Identity in Music
Jerry Palter
Things have been going really well. We got some gigs here, working at the casinos. It has been a time of changes, but change is good. Change is life.
Mark Shubb
It was like a great big door opening for me... Town Hall... after that concert, I realized I wanted to spend as much of the rest of my life as possible playing folk music with these gentlemen...
Jerry Palter
Right back atcha.
Mark Shubb
...and I wanted to spend all of it as a woman. I came to a realization that I was - and am - a blonde, female folk singer trapped in the body of a bald, male folk singer and I had to LET ME OUT or I WOULD DIE.
Jerry Palter
When you put it that way, it's almost poetry.
Alan Barrows
Almost.
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