* 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.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is try to please everybody.
I saw the show under unfortunate circumstances: the curtain was up.
I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds But soon you'll cage me on your shelf I'll never learn to be just me first, by myself.
I think it's an asset to a performer to be sexually attractive.
Everything that can possibly be painted has been painted, every brush-stroke that can possibly be laid on canvas has been laid on. Then suddenly at the age of forty I began painting myself and became fascinated.
Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
I often think that perhaps the reason I became a successful singer was that, as a kid, I could never do anything as well as my brothers. I wanted to do something better than they did
When your father tells you to do something, you do it, because all you've ever known since you were a little baby was that he was boss.
I think [the Beach Boys] were spiritually minded and we wrote music to give strength to people. I always feel holy when it comes to recording.
I like my whisky old and my women young.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison are the greatest composers since Beethoven, with Paul McCartney way out in front.
A bad artist borrows from others, a good artist steals. We used to call it nicking. "I Saw Her Standing There" is "Talking About You" by Chuck Berry. "Come Together" is a complete nick of Chuck Berry, slowed down.
Hot Voodoo, gets me wild, Oh, fireman, save this child. Im going to blazes, I want to be bad.
Louis Jordan is one of the cats I tried most to be like
I think my life is a vindication of what Middle America wants.
I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation
This does sound much like the words Richard Wagner gives Hans Sachs in his opera from 'Die Meistersinger', act 3:
In olden days a glimpse of stocking -- was looked on as something shocking -- but now, God knows, anything goes.
I helped his presidency. After I shot him, [Ronald Reagan] his polls went up 20 percent.
"It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend."
Most any night you know where I can be found, Yeah, stomping some geek's head into the ground; So keep the faith 'cause in Blassie you can trust, I won't give up 'til the last geek bites the dust.
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
The public insists on its fantasies of Hollywood. Marilyn Monroe, on the screen, is the sexiest woman in the world. In real life, she was blah. And always late.
With lovers and friends I still can recall -- Some are dead and some are living -- In my life I've loved them all.
The PC is the LSD of the '90s.
How? Search out, seek what had not been allowed, what was not real. As Tim Leary said, "It becomes necessary for us to go out of our minds in order to use our heads."
The hate in his heart can't erase the love in the grooves.
With the money he earned from the Getz/Gilberto album . . . Stan Getz bought a home in Irvington, New York. For his participation in the record, Joao Gilberto, as co-star, received $23,000. . . .
(Astrud Gilberto, who sang "Garota de Ipanema" [The Girl From Ipanema] in English and was responsible for the record's international success, earned what the American musicians' syndicate paid for a single night of work: $120.00.)