Music, Art and Madness Quotations and Proverbs

* 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.

Added for October 2005:

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts, trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry..
  • J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)
There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.
  • Fred Thompson (1942- ) _Time_ [October 26, 2002]
I don’t drink. I don’t like it. It makes me feel good.
  • Oscar Levant (1907 ? 1972)
The artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can attain it in nothing.
  • Eugene Delacroix (1798 ? 1863)
I am the strings, and the Supreme is the musician.
  • Carlos Santana (1947- )
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other. That's how it is today, that's how it'll be forever.
  • Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) _Salzburg Dance of Death_ [1963]
My uncle used to tell me, 'Dave, the most important thing in life is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you got it made.'
  • David Lee Roth
Always make an audience suffer as much as possible.
  • Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) _Family Circle_ [January 12, 1982]
I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.
  • Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) (On his drug addiction))
Some parents want their kids to be doctors or lawyers. [My mother] . . . wanted us to be in the numbers racket.
  • Rick James (1948-2004) _Jabberrock_ [1997]
If you want to know about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
  • Andy Warhol (1928-1987) (In Neil Printz's _Andy Warhol: A Retrospective_ [1986
I think consciousness has a place in the cosmic game, the atoms-and-universe game, the big game. I can't imagine that it's mindless--there's too much organization, and the organization is too incredible.
  • Jerry Garcia (1942-1996) _The Wisdom of Jerry Garcia_ [1995]

 

 

 

 

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