Vivian Stanshall Quotes

English musician, artist and author

Vivian Stanshall (21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995), born Victor Anthony Stanshall, was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.

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Birth Name: Victor Anthony Stanshall

Native Name: Vivian Anthony Stanshall • Viv Stanshall

Alternative Names: Victor Stanshall

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Fear is the root of all courage

why do male nudists wear towels to play tennis?

The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain...

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

Gentlemen, I am a bulldog, and you will find my bark is worse!

Seems a novel enough way to commit suicide. Pass me m' pistol. See if I can't bring the blighter down in the lake.

Do you know what a palmist once said to me? She said: WILL YOU LET GO!

Willy consulted a book called I-ching. Florrie suggested calamine lotion to stop it.... Henry suggested it sounded like something a gentleman would do behind a handkerchief

You got a light, mac? No...but I've got a dark brown overcoat.