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Rupert Holmes
English
Composer
Born:
Feb 24
,
1947
Audience
Failure
First
Had
Me
Time
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I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.
Rupert Holmes
Everything
More
Fact
In Fact
Want
Wanted
Much
The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.
Rupert Holmes
Truth
Truth Is
Writing
Somebody
Teens
Earth
Way
Everywhere
TV
Would
About
Only
Arenas
Songs
Performed
Since
Sing
Singer-Songwriter
Became
Because
Concerts
Halls
Rock
Still
Just
While
Clubs
Then
Initially
Guarantee
I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.
Rupert Holmes
Writing
World
Think
Invented
More
Than
Infinitely
Interesting
Inherited
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
Rupert Holmes
Plots
Had
Songs
Wrote
Narratives
Lot
Story
Early
Career
As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.
Rupert Holmes
Relationship
You
Theatre
Has-Been
See
About
Mystery
Between
Audiences
Go
Been
Years
Lot
Going
Much
Show
Fun
Element
Actor
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
Rupert Holmes
Life
Success
Death
Failure
Victory
My Life
Defeat
Add
Bitten
Must
Rush
Having
Both
Been
Ice
Ice Cream
Success Is
Cream
Jaws
Butter
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