John Belushi

“I suggest you go out and buy as many Blues albums as you can”. –John Belushi

Richard Crashaw

“Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!” — Richard Crashaw

Nahum Tate

“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow”. –Nahum Tate

Johnny Cash

“I love the freedoms we got in this country. I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine”. –Johnny Cash

Charles Dibdin

“For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day”. –Charles Dibdin

George Steinbrenner

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next”. –George Steinbrenner

Louis Armstrong

“Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is”. –Louis Armstrong

John Bonham

“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at”. –John Bonham

Phil Ochs

“One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies”. –Phil Ochs

Jaco Pastorius

“It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up”. –Jaco Pastorius

Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

eden ahbez

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see, it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters”. –eden ahbez

Sam Cooke

“There’s been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long, But now I think I’m able to carry on. It’s been a long, a long time coming, But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will”. –Sam Cooke

Pythagoras

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

Antonín Dvořák

“I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States”. –Antonín Dvořák

Marvin Gaye

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else”. –Marvin Gaye

Sam Kinison

“The Russians haven’t been to the moon. You know why? Because they’re space pussies… You really want to impress us? Bring us back our FLAG, asshole!” –Sam Kinison

Frédéric Chopin

“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them”. Frédéric Chopin

Curtis Mayfield

“Don’t worry – if there’s a hell below, we all gonna go”. –Curtis Mayfield

Eazy-E

“Don’t quote me boy, cause I ain’t said shit”. –Eazy-E

Bradley Nowell

“I think that self-reliance is what makes you happy; not having to worry about anything or not depending on anybody besides yourself”. –Bradley Nowell

Frank Sinatra

“If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it… It possesses you”. –Frank Sinatra

Harry Chapin

“My child arrived just the other day, He came to the world in the usual way. But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away”. –Harry Chapin

Cass Elliot

“I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics; working within, not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is”. –Cass Elliot

Jerry Garcia

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously”. –Jerry Garcia

Theodor Adorno

“The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit”. –Theodor Adorno

Syd Barrett

“I think young people should have a lot of fun, but I never seem to have any”. –Syd Barrett

John Lee Hooker

“The one thing the blues don’t get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hear. They choke stuff down people’s throat so they got no choice but to listen to it”. –John Lee Hooker

Elvis Presley

“The image is one thing and the human being is another… it’s very hard to live up to an image”. –Elvis Presley

Michael Jackson

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work”. –Michael Jackson

Otis Blackwell

“I’d hate to be a songwriter starting a career today”. –Otis Blackwell

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings”. –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Tupac Shakur

“America is the biggest gang in the world”. –Tupac Shakur

Thelonious Monk

“Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture”. –Thelonious Monk

Jim Morrison

“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me”. –Jim Morrison

Steve Allen

“Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances”. –Steve Allen

Janis Joplin

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got”. –Janis Joplin

Bob Marley

“Well, the biggest man that you ever did see was – was just a baby”. –Bob Marley

Claude Debussy

“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art”. –Claude Debussy

Henny Youngman

“A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months”. –Henny Youngman

Bruno Walter

“Napoleon is dead — but Beethoven lives”. –Bruno Walter

John Arbuthnot

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies”. –John Arbuthnot

Fred Astaire

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any”. –Fred Astaire

Irving Berlin

“The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success”. –Irving Berlin

Pierre Beaumarchais

“Drinking when not thirsty and making love all the time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from other animals”. –Pierre Beaumarchais

Georges Bizet

“As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note”. –Georges Bizet

Hank Williams

“No matter how I struggle and strive, I’ll never get out of this world alive”. –Hank Williams

John Lennon

“I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it”. –John Lennon

Hoyt Axton

“You know I smoked a lot of grass, And I popped a couple pills, But I never touched nothing that could break my will”. –Hoyt Axton

Sid Vicious

“I’ll probably die by the time I reach 25, but I’ll have lived the way I wanted to”. –Sid Vicious

William Cowper

“Regions Cæsar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they”. –William Cowper

Miles Davis

“If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow”. –Miles Davis

Rita Hayworth

“Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today’s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses”. –Rita Hayworth

Albert Schweitzer

“The African is my brother — but he is my younger brother by several centuries”. –Albert Schweitzer

Buddy Hackett

“I’ve had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you’re carrying a grudge, they’re out dancing”. –Buddy Hackett

Robert Moog

“One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it’s so easy to make sounds, and put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it’s just as hard as it always was to make good music”. –Robert Moog

Timothy Leary

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition”. –Timothy Leary

Franz Liszt

“What is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown song of which death sounds the first solemn note?” –Franz Liszt

Peter Tosh

“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die”. –Peter Tosh

Nat King Cole

“I can’t bear to see myself, even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can’t stand the sight of myself”. –Nat King Cole

Hector Berlioz

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils”. –Hector Berlioz

Igor Stravinsky

“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles”. –Igor Stravinsky

Groucho Marx

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies”. –Groucho Marx

Chet Atkins

“Years from now, after I’m gone, someone will listen to what I’ve done and know I was here. They may not know, or care, who I was, but they’ll hear my guitars speaking for me”. –Chet Atkins

Oscar Levant

“I envy people who drink; at least they know what to blame everything on”. –Oscar Levant

Richard Wagner

“I hate this fast-growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories, and deprive them of all joy in their efforts. The plan will lead to cheap men, and cheap products”. –Richard Wagner

Frank Zappa

“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe”. –Frank Zappa

G.G. Allin

“It’s not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way”. –G.G. Allin

Kurt Cobain

“I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not”. –Kurt Cobain

George Harrison

“The farther one travels, the less one really knows”. –George Harrison