Vivian Stanshall
Vivian Stanshall
Vivian Stanshallwas an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for acting as Master of Ceremonies on Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth21 March 1943
different unusual
Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?
thinking being-different sake
I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.
hit soft
Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol.
money spend spent
If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.'
forty pound separate
Once I was a forty pound weakling. Now I am two separate gorillas.
men mets
I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.
apology years two
Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.
roots
Fear is the root of all courage
want knows
I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!
Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.
drink ifs
If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.
normal freak ifs
If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life
letting-go said let-me
Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!
party gay sausage
Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party ...