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People that haven’t seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger.
Alice Cooperborn 1948Poppin (1969)
- Comedy
- Music
He has a woman’s name and wears makeup. How original.
Alice Cooperborn 1948On Marilyn Manson, as quoted in Celebrity Diss and Tell: Stars Talk About Each Other (2005) by Boze Hadleigh
- Clever Jabs
- Music
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Poetry is Not a Luxury”, p. 37
- Poetry
We don’t make mistakes; we just have happy accidents. And that’s when you really experience the joy of painting.
Bob Ross1942–1995Bob Ross: Beauty Is Everywhere. Collection 1: Ep. 8 “Wintertime Blues”
- Failure
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Essays in Criticism (1865), “Heinrich Heine”
- Poetry
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888On Translating Homer: Last Words (1862)
- Poetry
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
Joseph Gordon-Levittborn 1981Details, 2010
- Inspiration
Risk nothing, get nothing. If you wanna be famous, then it’s OK if the music is fake, because fame isn’t real.
Josh Hommeborn 1973“Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink” The Guardian (June 1, 2013)
- Fame
- Music
Poetry is like time travel, and poems take us to the heart of the matter.
Queen Camillaborn 1947First World War centenary: the war poem that moves the Duchess of Cornwall to tears The Daily Telegraph (28 June 2014)
- Poetry
I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
Courtney Loveborn 1964On women playing rock music, quoted in 1991, from This is the Sound: The Best of Alternative Rock (2008), p. 71
- Music
- Women
There’s always been an emotion in my voice because it reached back to the life I was living. Where there were tears on stage, it wasn’t Hollywood, it was real.
Tina Turner1939–2023My Love Story (2018/19), Motto
- Emotion
- Music
Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
Ada Lovelace1815–1852In a letter to Andrew Crosse, as quoted in Eugen Kölbing’s Englische Studien, Volume 19 (1894), Leipzig
- Family
- Poetry
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Burt Reynolds1936–2018In: Briton Hadden, ‎Henry Robinson Luce (1972). Time, Vol. 100. p. 43
- Comedy
- Movies
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Alan Rickman1946–2016Interview: Alan Rickman on “Nobel Son” by Aaron Hillis, IFC.com (4 December 2008)
- Acting
- Change
I don’t think about art while I work… I try to think about life.
Jean-Michel Basquiat1960–1988On his artistic process in “Jean-Michel Basquiat on How to Be an Artist” in Artsy (2019 Jun 6)
- Life & Death