Vintage Virtuoso Gifts

Antiques: Out Bidding

"Now this is a Francis Ford Coppola. We still haven't been here quite long enough to be drinkable ourselves."

junk bought - antiques sold.

'How impressive! I had no idea they awarded a Nobel Prize for home winemaking.'

"You may be more familiar with her maiden name, Kelly, Grace Kelly."

"Of course I didn't buy it to appreciate it --I bought it for it to appreciate."

"Here's another one written in E minor and in case you haven't guessed by now, it's the only chord I know."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

Trilby - 'A voice he didn't understand'.

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

"Eventually the instrument becomes an extension of your body."

'Either you do or you don't - there isn't any 'cooling-off' period!'

"This is nice. You have your knitting and I have my vodka."

'He's the bluesman's bluesman.'

Spiro & Pusho: watering the vine and the neighbour.

'Coleridge'

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

Poetry repairman

Writer

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

"Can you teach me to really bark? I only seem to be able to yap..."

Beatlemania: Open 24/8

War Heros Variety Night (playing a tune on his medals).

'I'm a voice over artist.'

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"

'They call me the 'grandfather' of Hip-Hop!'

Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev

Music Freak.

"...and are you, Jessica, committed to this bit?"

Alexander Pope

". . . and do you, John, give up your smug air of bemused detachment for the demands of marriage?"

Writer Blinds Shakespeare in Shame.

Dante Alighieri

'Every time I manage to learn the second verse of a song, I forget the first one.'