20 Quotes by Jonathan Richman

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    If there was no Velvet Underground there would have been no such record. Does that tell you what you need to know?

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    I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb.

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    Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it's cold outside. And the highway when it's late at night. Got the radio on, I'm like the roadrunner.

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    They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.

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    Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

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  • Author Jonathan Richman
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    I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I’m getting ready for wherever she’ll be at-tra, cause I’m getting stronger now and not so dumb.

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