“Fame itself … doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.”
– David Bowie

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”
Johnny Depp

“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.”
– Ricky Gervais

“Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.”
– Eminem

“If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“I think I understand what military fame is – to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.”
– William Tecumseh Sherman

“Fame was thrilling only until it became gruelling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.”
– Gloria Swanson

“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”
– Lord Byron

“A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.”
– Clive James

“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”
– Dante Alighieri

Thoughts on fame

Kliphuis trio at Dorchester

A CHANCE meeting in a small Russian cultural cafe in Glasgow led to the formation of the Tim Kliphuis trio, now regarded as one of the finest string ensembles, comes to the Corn Exchange at Dorchester on Friday 19th May at 8pm.

The trio, which was founded after the meeting in Café Cossachok in 2006, play music that crosses the boundaries of classical, gypsy jazz and folk.

The three musicians, Kliphuis on violin, Nigel Clark on guitar and Roy Percy, double bass, combine astonishing virtuosity and mesmerizing improvisations.

They started out with Grappelli-inspired jazz on their first tours in the Scottish Highlands and quickly developed a personal sound including other styles and repertoire from classical and folk music.

The Dorchester concert will feature tunes by Django Reinhardt, and the trio’s new Five Elements suite, an ode to our planet, as well as classically inspired pieces from Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, and some Vivaldi Four Seasons.

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Kliphuis trio at Dorchester