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.

The Best Of June 2005:

Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord -- But you're gonna have to serve somebody.

It would have been better if Glenn [Miller] had lived, and his music had died.
  • bandleader Artie Shaw
 For me, there still remains the cocaine bottle..
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, _The Sign of the Four_ (1889)
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
  • Salvadore Dali
 When you believe in things, That you don't understand; Then you suffer, Superstition ain't the way.
  • Stevie Wonder (1950- ) _Superstition_ [1972] (song)
 If you're writing songs, there are two things that you just don't write about: politics and religion. We write about both.
  • Bono [Paul David Hewson] (1960- )
 The only time a human being is free is when he or she makes a work of art.
  • Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805) (In Edmund White's _The Burning Library_ [1994])
 I tried being a hippie for a year--it was a total loss. I was a lousy hippie.
  • Billy Joel (1949- )
 I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.
  • Judy Collins (1939- ) _Secret Gardens of the Heart_ [1972]
 You want to make some money? You've got to do your hair like mine.
  • James Brown (1933- ) (To George Benson when Benson's hair was naturally curly)
 My life has been a soap opera..
  • Tammy Wynette (1942-1998) _US_ [June 30, 1986]
 LSD? Nothing much happened, but I did get the distinct impression some birds were trying to communicate with me..
  • W.H. Auden 1907-73 quoted by George Plimpton (1989)

 

 

 

 

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