* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come
to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney
and continue on the way.
I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene
Vincent, and I thought, well, I can do this. And I
liked doing it. It's a real buzz, even in front of
twenty people, to make a complete fool of yourself.
I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.
For most people, the fantasy is driving around in a
big car, having all the chicks you want and being
able to pay for it. It always has been, still is,
and always will be. And anyone who says it isn't
is talking bullshit.
No time to marry, no time to settle down;
I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
When you play the blues, (the whores) will call you
sweet names and buy you drinks and give you tips.
I smoked (marijuana) a long time. And I found out
something. First place, it's a thousand times
better than whiskey. It's an assistant, a friend, a
nice cheap drink if you want to call it that.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how
bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.
Who are you running from, you crazy man? . . . Even
gods have lived in the woods like me.
[T]hough they imposed silence on our tongues, they could not impose it on
our pens, which usually reveal more freely than do tongues the secrets of
the heart. . .
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
[N]othing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose -
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
I have nothing to say - And I am saying it - And that is poetry.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
All artists - I believe - need the reassurance of a sincere opinion.
Respighi had the singular good fortune to have a wife who was also a highly
intelligent adviser, a woman of rapid intuition who could be brutally
frank.
'If only this endless jumble of music in my brain would stop'