Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
Quotes about gypsies (15 Quotes)
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.
It started in the Middle East. It was born from all the Middle Eastern countries, with input from the Gypsies. It's a very old dance form, but not specifically from one place.
We've been fortunate to have found some places. We're real gypsies. Amy works hard on her own and she's been able to keep up with her work on her own.
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
Dr. Josef Mengele, who conducted experiments on Jews and Gypsies at Auschwitz (he had two doctorates, by the way) would have fit in quite nicely at Columbia, ... To paraphrase Theodor Adorno, the German Jewish philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, 'Auschwitz begins wherever somebody looks at a Columbia lab and thinks they're only animals.'
My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
Would people still use the same demeaning language talking about European gypsies or immigrants It is fundamentally an old, 19th-century throwback to the idea that that these people are somehow like our ancestors, or backward. It conveys that they are somehow not as intelligent as we are that they haven't progressed as far as we have. It is fundamentally a colonial mentality.
I really believe Phil Lewis and myself, we are lifers. Before we joined L.A. GUNS , Phil and I had done a lot of stuff other than him just being in GIRL , and me being in W.A.S.P. We are a little bit older than the crowd. We have been playing since the mid-'70s. We are really gypsies there is no doubt about it. We have to be on the move, we have family lives, and personal lives in L.A., but we are two gypsies. I think our families are gypsies now too. (Laughter) That is the secret to L.A. GUNS . It doesn't matter if we are playing a small club, or on a big tour. We have to play, and we have to record new music. I think that is the difference between us and other bands. We must record for ourselves. If we don't do new material there is no point. We love our old repertoire. We have to play a lot of it every night. We just love it all, but we can't live off that. We have to be writing new songs all the time.
We're based on our friends' couches and in our old rooms at our parents' houses. What we have in common is that our parents loved to travel, so touring comes natural to us. We're a band of gypsies.
Steal to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
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.
This is going to be a long, hard year, ... We're going to be gypsies. We don't know where we're going to live, where we're going to stay, where we're going to be playing. But it could be worse.
Maybe he thinks the gypsies have put a curse on me - he's very superstitious, you know.
Be born anywhere, little embyro novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of salvation. Go out and be born among the gypsies or thieves or among happy workaday people who live in the sun and do not think about their souls.