Billy Bennett

“There’s a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch; There’s a little hot cross bun that’s turning green; There’s a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow, And you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”. –Billy Bennett

Yul Brynner

“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb”. –Yul Brynner

Charles Dibdin

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

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

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

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

Jack Dempsey

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t”. –Jack Dempsey

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

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

Duke Kahanamoku

“Don’t talk — keep it in your heart”. –Duke Kahanamoku

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

Allen Ginsberg

“You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits repression in various forms of social sadism”. –Allen Ginsberg

James Dean

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today”. –James Dean

Thelonious Monk

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

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

Ken Kesey

“He who marches out of line hears another drum”. –Ken Kesey

Bela Lugosi

“People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties; they live like ants”. –Bela Lugosi

Bruno Walter

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

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

Red Skelton

“Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles”. –Red Skelton

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

Jack Paar

“I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off”. –Jack Paar

Hank Williams

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

Peter Sellers

“Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat”. –Peter Sellers

Klaus Kinski

“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real”. –Klaus Kinski

Satchel Paige

“Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines”. –Satchel Paige

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

James Cagney

“If the American family has seemed in danger of disintegration, I believe and hope it will survive, and I think America will return to old values”. –James Cagney

John Holmes

“Friends will get you killed”. –John Holmes

Rogers Hornsby

“Any ballplayer that don’t sign autographs for little kids ain’t an American, he’s a communist”. –Rogers Hornsby

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

Charlton Heston

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners”. –Charlton Heston

Charles Olson

“When will the government cease being a nuisance to everybody?” –Charles Olson

Humphrey Bogart

“Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse”. –Humphrey Bogart

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

Bette Davis

“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch”. –Bette Davis

John Barrymore

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams”. –John Barrymore

Hector Berlioz

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

John Wayne

“Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid”. –John Wayne

Igor Stravinsky

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

Lucille Ball

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done”. –Lucille Ball

William S. Burroughs

“How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity”. –William S. Burroughs

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

Oliver Reed

“I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on Earth”. –Oliver Reed

Richard Burton

“The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself”. –Richard Burton

Boris Marshalov

“Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees”. –Boris Marshalov

PT Barnum

“Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master”. –PT Barnum

Will Rogers

“We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give them a lot of publicity”. –Will Rogers

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 Carlin

“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”. –George Carlin

George Harrison

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

Jesse Owens

“Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the president either”. –Jesse Owens