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| Billie Holiday | | "You Can Be up to Your Boobies in White Satin, With Gardenias in Your Hair and No Sugar Cane for Miles, but You Can Still Be Working on a Plantation" |
American Jazz Singer
| Bob Dylan | | "Colleges Are Like Old-age Homes, Except for the Fact That More People Die in Colleges" |
American singer-songwriter, musician and poet
| Bob Dylan | | "Democracy Don't Rule the World, You'd Better Get That in Your Head; This World is Ruled by Violence, But I Guess That's Better Left Unsaid" |
American singer, songwriter, author, musician and poet
| Bob Dylan | | "A Hero is Someone Who Understands the Responsibility That Comes With His Freedom" |
American singer, songwriter, author, musician and poet
| Bob Dylan | | "I Consider Myself a Poet First and a Musician Second. I Live Like a Poet and I'll Die Like a Poet" |
American singer, songwriter, author, musician and poet
| Doris Day | | "The Really Frightening Thing About Middle Age is That You Know You'll Grow out of It" |
American Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning singer, actress, and animal welfare
| Elvis Presley | | "I Don't Know Anything About Music. In My Line You Don't Have To" |
Pop music icon
| Frank Zappa | | "Without Music to Decorate It, Time is Just a Bunch of Boring Production Deadlines or Dates by Which Bills Must Be Paid" |
American composer, guitarist, satirist and song writer
| Giorgio Moroder | | "I Am Certainly Not Racist; I Even Like the British" |
Singer, songwriter, record producer.
| Gustav Mahler | | "If a Composer Could Say What He Had to Say in Words He Would Not Bother Trying to Say It in Music." |
| Gustav Mahler | | "The Symphony Must Be Like the World. It Must Embrace Everything" |
Remarks to Jean Sibelius
| Hector Berlioz | | "Time is a Great Teacher, but Unfortunately Kills All Its Pupils" |
French Romantic composer, best known for his Symphonie Fantastique
| Jean Sibelius | | "Pay No Attention to What the Critics Say. No Statue Has Ever Been Put up to a Critic." |
| John Lennon | | "As Usual There is a Great Woman Behind Every Idiot" |
English singer, songwriter and political activist, member of the “Beatles”
| John Lennon | | "A Dream You Dream Alone is Only a Dream. A Dream You Dream Together is Reality" |
English singer, songwriter and political activist, member of the “Beatles”
| John Lennon | | "Reality Leaves a Lot to the Imagination" |
English singer, songwriter and political activist, member of the “Beatles”
| Kyle Minogue | | "I'm Just a Natural Flirt, but I Don't See It in a Sexual Way. A Lot of the Time I'm Like an Overexcited Puppy" |
Australian pop singer and entertainer
| Leonard Cohen | | "Poetry is Just the Evidence of Life. If Your Life is Burning Well, Poetry is Just the Ash." |
Canadian born poet, novelist, songwriter and vocalist
| Ludwig Van Beethoven | | "Must It Be? It Must Be" |
Epigraph on String Quartet, op. 135
| Maurice Chevalier | | "Many a Man Has Fallen in Love With a Girl in a Light So Dim He Would Not Have Chosen a Suit by It" |
French actor, singer and popular entertainer
| Michael Torke | | "Why Waste Money on Psychotherapy when You Can Listen to the B Minor Mass?" |
Contemporary American composer, referring to the work by J.S. Bach
| Oscar Levant | | "What the World Needs is More Geniuses With Humility, There Are So Few of Us Left" |
American pianist, composer and author
| Patterson Hood | | "Living in Fear is Just Another Way of Dying Before Your Time" |
Co-founder of the band Drive-by Truckers
| Paul Simon | | "Improvisation is Too Good to Leave to Chance" |
American Grammy award-winning musician, composer
| Rod Stewart | | "Instead of Getting Married Again, I’m Going to Find a Woman I Don’t Like and Just Give Her a House" |
British singer and songwriter
| Rudolf Bing | | "It is So Much Worse to Be a Mediocre Artist Than to Be a Mediocre Post Office Clerk" |
Austrian-born opera impresario
| Thomas Jones | | "Friends May Come and Go, but Enemies Accumulate" |
Welsh pop music singer
| Victor Borge | | "Laughter is the Shortest Distance Between Two People" |
Entertainer / Pianist
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