Paul Gambaccini quotes

Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.
-- Paul Gambaccini

#Alchemist #Guarantees #Evening

No one loves a country as much as someone who has chosen to live in it.
-- Paul Gambaccini

#Country #One Love #Chosen

Never sue the police. The odds are in their favour.
-- Paul Gambaccini

#Odds #Police #Favour

The BBC said I could stay on air until I was named. Well, I was named within the week. So I made no broadcasts after I'd been arrested, and the BBC stopped paying me at precisely the time when I needed the money most.
-- Paul Gambaccini

#Air #Week #Made

When the case against me was dropped, the police simply said "no further action". They do that with everybody.
-- Paul Gambaccini

#Police #Action #Said

I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, and broadcasting, a medium which has always fascinated me. I'm very lucky.
-- Paul Gambaccini

#Lucky #Enthusiasm #Film

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?