Alan Vega Quotes

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

It's sad really, I think 'Freedom' would've done better, but it got shelved because of the pregnancy, so it might be something that might get revisited in the future; who knows?

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

What a pity so few

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out on something. But it doesn't matter. It's boring. I don't have any anger about it.

By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises.

Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go in the order you want to do. So I haven't got a huge list of undone films or stuff that's just been abandoned forever.

I am leaps and bounds better than Henry Cejudo. I greatly believe that. But unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to prove it.

I don't think people in England ever saw the best of me.

I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.

I could have had eight or nine world titles at least, and you do think about that at times.

I do feel a bit dejected about my film career. I am sad that it didn't take off as expected. I didn't get my due as an actor. I have an attractive personality and good looks. But I don't know what went wrong? You need to stop thinking about such things and move on.

It's definitely hard being taken from your dream, especially when you're trying to accomplish something.

As time goes on, we suppress our dreams, which really makes me sad.