Composed Musical Work

🇬🇧Anthony Burgess

Music

1917–1993

"The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil."

🇮🇳Zakir Hussain (politician)

Politics

1934–2019

"Had your mother not been so well-organized, so simple, so virtuous and so resourceful, I would not have been what I am today."

🇺🇸Kurt Cobain

Music

1967–1994

"We're Nirvana and we really don't particularly like heavy metal."

🇺🇸Jon Appleton

Music

1939–2022

"Dartmouth is the place I’ve devoted my life to, so it’s very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution."

🇺🇸Stephen Sondheim

Music

1930–2021

"Without question, Steve is the best Broadway lyricist, past or present."

🇺🇸Jimmy Buffett

Music

1946–2023

"It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad."

🇺🇸Jim Steinman

Music

1947–2021

"And we’ll never be as young as we are right now"

🇺🇸Chick Corea

Music

1941–2021

"Chick Corea's Commencement Address at the Berklee College of Music"

🇬🇧Harrison Birtwistle

Music

1934–2022

"I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."

Antonín Dvořák

Music

Romantic music

1841–1904

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression – at least, not in the beginning – and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap."

🇺🇸David Crosby

Music

1941–2023

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words."

🇬🇧Richard Ashcroft

Music

b. 1971

"You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah."

Alexander Borodin

Music

1833–1887

"Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations."

🇺🇸Tina Turner

Music

1939–2023

"I have a simple, childlike view of life, and I want to keep it. That's why I never got into that Beverly Hills world. So many pretentious people. They just aren't real."

🇮🇹Franco Battiato

Music

1945–2021

"We're come from stars' cosmic nature, | now we are destroying the future."

🇮🇳Zakir Hussain (musician)

Music

1951–2024

"Zakir bhai is indeed a phenomenon of our times. It is not surprising that young tabla players are inspired or influenced by him but cloning will only give them a temporary impetus."

🇺🇸Little Richard

Music

1932–2020

"I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard."