Robert Palmer Quotes

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.

I never said half the things I said.

I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.

… nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we are now awash in them. False rumors are especially troublesome; they impose real damage on individuals and institutions, and they often resist correction. They can threaten careers, policies, public officials, and sometimes even democracy itself.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

TV is not accurate.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long–and quoted them out of context–that many people like to have their words on record [in writing]. I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

I think that the Information Age is great, but there's a downside to it obviously as well, and it's that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it's sad that so many people will believe it.

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

Rumours are rumours. The Internet is going to report whatever they have to speculate on.

A lot of stories that aren't true get out into the mainstream, and it's hard to correct that. People want to hear what they already believe.

There was a story saying I didn't like contemporary comedians, but it's completely untrue - a lot of them are very dear friends of mine.