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.

Best Of August 2005:

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm 45.

Pop music is just long hours, hard work and lots of drugs.
  • Cass Elliot (1941-1974) Joe Kohut's _Rock Talk_ [1994]
Hollywood is the kind of town where they stick a knife in your back and then arrest you for carrying a concealed weapon.
  • Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) Jon Winokur's _War Between the State_ [2004]
I think it's the best out of all the records I've ever made. "Rain" blows me away. It's out of left field. I know me and I know my playing, and then there's "Rain".
  • Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos--especially activity that appears to have no meaning.
  • Jim Morrison (1943-1971) _Jabberrock_ [1997]
[Marc] Chagall is my favorite pupil, and what I like about him is that after listening attentively to my lessons he takes his paints and brushes and does something absolutely different from what I have told him.
  • Leon Bakst (1868-1924)
Barbara Walters knows who I am? Shit! I must be famous.
  • Courtney Love (1964- ) _Jabberrock_ [1997],
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
  • Chet Atkins (1924-2001)
I don't think in terms of results. I think: What next insanity can I shock the world with?
  • Mel Brooks (1926- )_Maclean's_ [April 17, 1978]
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
  • Jack Lemmon (1925-2001) (In a 1987 television interview)
If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.
  • Pamela Anderson (1967- )_Movieline_ [November 2002]
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
  • Pete Townshend (1945- ) _The Life and Good Times of the Rolling Stones_ [1989]
Home is where you hang your head.
  • Julius 'Groucho' Marx (1890-1977)
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)_The Wisdom of the Sands_ [1948]

 

 

 

 

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