Verka Serduchka quotes

“As I was not a good singer - I have started to sing. And because no one could write an appropriate song for me - I started to write songs by myself.”
-- Verka Serduchka

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“Some songs can wait for years, and then - boom! and explode like a bomb.”
-- Verka Serduchka

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“It is time of individualities now. Good performing skills are not enough now, you may sing better or worse - tons of good singers are waiting outside - it doesn't matter. You have to be different!”
-- Verka Serduchka

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“Music appeared later. At first I was making people laugh with my funny stories. Live and on TV too. It was great, but I started to think that people will soon get bored from it. I have said to myself: "If you are going to go on being a superstar, you have to sing!"”
-- Verka Serduchka

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“Listening to albums and records is not the best way to percept Verka Serduchka. Live shows are the place where you can feel that specific atmosphere, that is not going to be the same ever.”
-- Verka Serduchka

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“Facebook, instagram - I prefer visual communication better than verbal. But I read all the comments, answering too.”
-- Verka Serduchka

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“Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.”

“A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.”

“Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.”

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”

“I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.”

“I've got a crush on my backing singer.”