Gypsy Quotes

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.

I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis.

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'

In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.

For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

I've been such a gypsy in my life because I was born in northern England and grew up there until I was 16. But I'm 31 now, so I've lived almost half my life in so many other countries that I don't really know what nationality I am. I mean, I've got a British passport and an American green card, but I don't know where I'm from anymore.

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart.

I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.

I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.

The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.

I'm out here to represent the gingers, the gypsies, and the outcasts. Because I am all of the above, and I'm all about having a great time.

Will: I say we sell her to the Gypsies on Hampstead Heath. I hear they puchase spare women as well as hoses. Charlotte: Will, stop it. That's ridivulous. Will:You're right. They'd never buy her. Too scrawny.

I'm a wandering gypsy.

Not all of them, but certainly there's some really, really dramatic differences among apples. And what you learn if you have that number of varieties is you learn which Apple is good for which purpose. So I have a favorite apple for apple pie. It's called Bramley Seedling. It's a old British Apple. I blend a lot of these apples together that make apple cider every year. It's a great hobby, but it's, you know, it takes some time. And it can be frustrating when the Japanese beetles or the gypsy moths come.

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.

We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

One of the biggest questions to me was whether or not Gypsy the person was capable of loving anyone or anything beyond Gypsy Rose Lee the creation, and even that was a conflicted, tortured relationship.

It's better to embrace your roots than it is to fight it, because then you're just fighting something that you're not going to win. We're like a band of gypsies, and it makes sense.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.

Flamenco is Arabic music and rhythms filtered through centuries of gypsies making music. The gypsies themselves came originally from India. And then there is the Caribbean influences... This whole idea that there is any such thing in music that "purity" is bunk, it just doesn't exist. I love that I am playing these rhythms to people. And the next time they hear something that's maybe a little more exotic, I have created a little bridge, and they are going, "Oh, this actually sounds really cool. It reminds me a little bit of that, but it's something different."

I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous; I thought she was brilliant; I thought she was cruel.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

My center is the soul of a gypsy.

I'm sort of a gypsy at heart and don't like to stay in one place too long.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time and ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.