Gypsy quotes

Gypsy

49 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt Composer, Pianist

"In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish."

Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

"Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'"

Charles Churchill
Charles Churchill Poet, Playwright

"Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own."

Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian

"It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again."

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
Gypsy

"A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him."

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Gypsy

"I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed."

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Zoë Heller Author, Journalist
Gypsy

"When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse."

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