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.

Rerun: The Best Of October 2004

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
  • Carl Sandburg
I'm scared to death of being cold stone sober.
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
I've always been in love with my voice.
  • Roy Orbison
I shudder and I sigh to think that even Cicero and many-minded Homer were mad as the mists and snow.
  • W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
  • Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
  • Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)_Murder in the Cathedral_ 1935
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must forget them.
  • From Dr. Mardy's
They separated him from the amplifier and the guitar and it was like he was having an epileptic attack. I said, Do I have to go through these changes just to play my guitar? I'm just a kid! When they separated him, his eyes were red. . . He was gone.
  • Carlos Santana (1947- ) [Shapiro and Glebbeek's _Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy_ 1995
Too many overdosed in too many ways: Mama Cass, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, al Wilson of Canned Heat, Brian Jones of the rolling Stones, Keith Moon of The Who, and Pigpen of the Grateful Dead. Those were only the most famous, for untold numbers had bad trips, or worse. Some still are scared. No alien to drugs, Neil Young warned his generation that (every junkie is like a setting sun.) Some never left the endless line of dope peddlers on Telegraph Avenue; others could never leave their own Haight-Ashburys.
  • Terry H. Anderson_The Movement and the Sixties_ 1995
They are extremely wretched paintings..putrid meat. There is no doubt that the great majority of the work called modern is the product of degenerates.
  • J.S. Donald, then director of the National Gallery of Victoria (Austria) on his successful ban of an exhibition of the works of Cezanne, Chagall, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso and others (1939)

 

 

 

 

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