Marc Bolan Quotes

There is so little time for us all, I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible. Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

My quest has always been to get my story to the rest o' the people.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

I want to say so much more than I have time for.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.

I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.

I don't like to repeat myself.

The things I have to say on and off the record are important, and I say them because I want to be heard.

Got so much to say, such little time.

If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you're lucky you'll still be alive.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

Conciseness is underrated

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.