Words Of Wisdom

“I ain’t heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.”  John Entwistle

“A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.”  Charles Dickens

“I don’t like to watch golf on television because I can’t stand people who whisper.”  David Brenner

“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.”  Jimi Hendrix

“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.” Marcel Duchamp

“It’s an ordinary day for Brian (Jones). Like, he died every day, you know.”  Peter Townshend

“Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.” Lewis Black

“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.” Andy Warhol

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”  Henry Ford

“I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.”  Whoopi Goldberg

“I think all art is about control – the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.”  Richard Avedon

“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”  George Washington Carver

2010:

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” Henry Ford

“Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.”  John Lennon

“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”  Hedy Lamarr

“You know when you’re sitting on a chair and you lean back so you’re just on two legs then you lean too far and you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.” Stephen Wright

“All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.”  Paul Hawken

“If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.” Kurt Cobain

“Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.”  Timothy Leary

“A satellite has no conscience.” Edward R. Murrow

“I don’t have to be careful, I’ve got a gun.”  Matt Groening

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“But to me, to be original is to be yourself.”  Marc Newson

“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”  Julia Child

“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”  Edward R. Murrow

“Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.”  Edwin Land

“The monster was the best friend I ever had.”  Boris Karloff

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”   Henry David Thoreau

“If music be the food of love, play on. “  William Shakespeare

“No Drugs, just Hugs”  Deborah (D-Money) Bux

“Peace begins with a smile.”  Mother Teresa

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”  Thomas A. Edison

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. “  Aristotle

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”  Mae West

“A picture is a poem without words.”  Horace

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. ” Emo Philips

“Didn’t come up here to read. Came up here to hit.”  Hank Aaron

“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”  H. L. Mencken

“I’ve always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.”  Gary Larson

“Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.”  Isaac Pitman

“I dress to kill, but tastefully.”  Freddie Mercury

“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”  George Edward Moore

“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.”  David Allan Coe

“It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it’s very easy to surprise people.”  Pamela Anderson

“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”  Irvin S. Cobb

“Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.”  Knute Rockne

“Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.”  Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.”  Fortune Cookie

“Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.”  Henry Cotton

“A joke is a very serious thing.”  Winston Churchill

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” Gustav Mahler

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. ” Bob Marley

“To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder.”  Keith Moon

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”  Pablo Picasso

“Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”  Frank Lloyd Wright

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”  Henry Ford

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”  Walt Disney

“Music is my religion.” Jimi Hendrix

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

“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”  Groucho Marx

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. ”  Edgar Degas

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”  Ralph Marston

“When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.”  Tom Ford

“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.” Katharine Graham

“A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.” Samuel Goldwyn

“I don’t need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don’t excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.”  LeBron James

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”  Mohandas Gandhi

“Great art picks up where nature ends.”  Marc Chagall

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”  Benjamin Franklin

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”   Ellen Glasgow

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”  Richard Avedon

“I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.”  Gilda Radner

“A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.”  Boethius

“I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.”  Ralph Lauren

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”  Franz Kafka

“I wasn’t really naked. I simply didn’t have any clothes on.”  Josephine Baker

“Delay is preferable to error.”  Thomas Jefferson

“I have a beer belly.”  Christy Turlington (model)

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” Gen. George S. Patton

“I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.” Jimmy Page

“I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.”  Keith Moon

“My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.”  Elvis Costello

“Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.” Brigitte Bardot

“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.”  F. Lee Bailey

“I refuse to confide and don’t like it when people write about art.”  Balthus

“Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.” Steve Wozniak (Co-founder Apple Computer)

“I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.”  Warren Buffett

“Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.” Steve Ballmer (CEO Microsoft)