Ricky Nelson (1940-1985)

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

Carlos Santana

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Rodney Dangerfield

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Bill Wyman

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

''The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.''

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913)

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Oliver Hardy (1892-1957)

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Bob Newhart

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

Stan Laurel (1890-1965)

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

Ravi Shankar

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Johnny Carson (1925-2005)

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

Kieth Richards

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

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.

Axl Rose

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Patsy Cline (1932-1963)

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

John Coltrane (1926-1967)

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

Mose Allison

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

P.T. Barnum (1810-1891)

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Charles Mingus (1922-1979)

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Arthur Godfrey (1903-1983 )

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1361)

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Spencer Tracy (1900-1967)

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?