Frank Zappa (1940-1993)

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

AY Jackson (1882-1974)

We broke from old tradition. I am an objective painter, I should like to go abstract, but I don't know how. (A. Y. Jackson)

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

Terry Fox (1958-1981)

Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

Lao Tzu

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Morton Feldman (1926-1987)

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

Jack Nicholson

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Charles Laughton

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

Buster Keaton

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

Charlie Watts

Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic.

Steven Tyler

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

Peter Townshend

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

John Keats (1795-1821)

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

Jack Paar (1916-2004)

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

Billy Graham

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Tom Waits

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)

Communism is like one big phone company.

Orson Welles (1015-1985)

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

James Taylor

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

Jack Benny (1894-1974)

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Don Rickles

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

Ginger Baker

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Van Morrison

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

Alice B. Toklas

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

Pat Metheny

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

Robin Trower

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

Telly Savalas (1924-1994)

We're all born bald, baby.

Billy Martin (1928-1989)

There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.

Steve Earle

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.