Kevin Rowland quotes

I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.
-- Kevin Rowland

#Ambition #Midnight #Precious Possessions

Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.
-- Kevin Rowland

#Artist #Clothes #Tortured Artists

People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.
-- Kevin Rowland

#People #Arrogant #Knows

The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.
-- Kevin Rowland

#Men #Way

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes...

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?