Bobby Womack Quotes

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.

The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.

My goal is always to leave you slightly wanting more.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

Sometimes you never fully understand why you are attracted to a project until you get deeper into it.

What's the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful... It taunts you.

I don't try to make things mysterious on purpose; I just try to make them interesting.