Phil Spector quotes

Phil Spector quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police”
-- Phil Spector

#Police Quotes #Overdose Quotes
“People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.”
-- Phil Spector

#People Quotes #Soul Quotes #Want Quotes
“I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.”
-- Phil Spector

#Art Quotes #Way Quotes #Sun Quotes
“I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to get a bit of musical credibility.”
-- Phil Spector

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Musical Quotes
“God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil.”
-- Phil Spector

#Evil Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Let Me Quotes
“I'm not a bona fide human being.”
-- Phil Spector

#Humans Quotes #Human Beings Quotes
“The best part of breaking up... is when you're making up.”
-- Phil Spector

#Making Up Quotes
“Paul McCartney has a voice that can do anything!”
-- Phil Spector

#Voice Quotes #Can Do Quotes

“Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.”
“We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.”
“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing
“We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.”

Source : "NYC Police Investigating Shooting Death by Police of Groom on His Wedding Day". www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2006.
“In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.'”
“If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities, the FBI, the police, the Democratic (Party) anybody that would listen. I wouldn't depend on one guy with the Department of Transportation.”
“If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
“In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.”
“Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police”
“Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.”

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