"It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy."
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"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."
"Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?"
"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."
"A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money."
"Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age."
"I'm a wandering gypsy."
"When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse."
"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."