Robert Wyatt

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

Johnny Cash (1932-2003)

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Tom Smothers

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

Mary Tyler Moore

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

Carol Burnett

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

Patty Duke

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990)

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

Octavio Paz (1914-1998)

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Bruce Springsteen

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Geoffry Chaucer (1343-1400)

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Paul Celan (1920-1970)

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Gregory Corso (1930-2001)

I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Soupy Sales (1926-2009)

"What starts with 'f' and ends with 'uck'? a fire truck"

Confucius (551 BC-479 BC)

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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Jerry Lewis

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971)

When you understand one thing through
and through, you understand everything.

Jeff Beck

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

Arnold Palmer

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Ed Sullivan (1902-1974)

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers

Neil Diamond

I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Henry Miller (1891-1980)

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

John Candy (1950-1994)

“Whoever said nothing is impossible obviously hasn't tried nailing Jell-O to a tree.”