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.'

'Coleridge'

Spiro & Pusho: watering the vine and the neighbour.

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

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

Does "worldly goods" include intellectual property?

Beatlemania: Open 24/8

I'm a songbird. He's my lyricist.

Writer

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

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

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

Poetry repairman

'I'm a voice over artist.'

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

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

Leonard Cohen

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

Music Freak.

Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev

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

Writer Blinds Shakespeare in Shame.