* 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.
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free,
and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable
faith.
Rock 'n' roll is the most brutal, ugly, vicious form of expression--sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty . . . the martial music of
every delinquent on the face of the earth.
I remember when I was very young, this is very serious, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced
me. He said, [You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.]
Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.
My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he
might become disturbed.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the
public buys it.
When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of
civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a
necessity--a function. We don't need history.
Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin
of all is satisfaction.
Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.
Work is much more fun than fun.
It is only well with me when I have a chisel in my hand.
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
...like swimming in a sea of gumdrops.
By '72, pretty much everything had shifted to the songs. By '72, pretty much everything that could be done with the
guitar had been done, with the exception of Eddie Van Halen, who had yet to come. What were you gonna do that
Clapton, Beck, Page, and Hendrix hadn't done?
[...T]he Grammys' low ratings belie the theory that piracy is killing the music industry. If everyone were simply pirating
new music that they enjoyed, they'd still tune in to watch their favorite performers in a free network broadcast.
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small
expense.
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously
gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce
no combinations.
I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God Himself.
An extraordinary thing happened today.
An actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a
craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child, and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest
who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerise a group of innocents.
[Rock 'n' roll is] just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus
possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Moths are attracted by the flames of personality. So are vampires. Artists should take note and beware.
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it -- A song is no song 'til you sing it -- And love in your heart wasn't put there to stay --
Love isn't love... 'Til you give it away.
If they (politicians) weren't so f**king dangerous, it would be fun to laugh at them all the time, but sometimes you
have to take into account how much damage they can do.
To be too conscious is an illness, a real throughgoing illness.
His (James Joyce) prose works have an artistic intensity, a definitive beauty of surface and of form, which make him
comparable to the great poets rather than to most of the great novelists.
In the early morning of February 3, following a February 2nd performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa,
the small four-passenger Beechcraft Bonanza took off into a blinding snow storm and crashed into Albert Juhl's corn
field several miles after takeoff at 1:05 a.m. The crash killed Holly, Valens, Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson.
This event would become known as [The Day the Music Died].
The image we [The Carpenters] have would be hard for Mickey Mouse to maintain.
First of all, you tell that goddamn queer we don't lend less than a million dollars. And even if he asked for a million, I
wouldn't lend it to that f**king queer faggot.
Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.