Guitar Performance

🇺🇸Kurt Cobain

Music

1967–1994

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

🇬🇧Brian May

Music

b. 1947

"When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures."

🇷🇸Đorđe Balašević

Music

1953–2021

"From far away, through the sights of a sniper, they would look like Muslims, Serbs or Croats to somebody, but I approached them face to face, I saw them clearly, and trust me... They were just people..."

🇺🇸Liz Phair

Music

b. 1967

"…When I’m not working, I safeguard my time to go into a dream state and not have to think about the commercialization of my art or the commodification of myself..."

🇬🇧John Oliver

Entertainment

1959–1927

"You have just constructed a straw man so large you could burn it in the desert and hold an annoying festival around it."

🇺🇸Bill Withers

Music

1938–2020

"I grew up in the age of Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson … It was a time where a fat, ugly broad that could sing had value. Now everything is about image. It’s not poetry. This just isn’t my time."

🇺🇸Ace Frehley

Music

1951–2025

"I'm very articulate when I wanna be. You wanna talk to me?"

🇺🇸David Crosby

Music

1941–2023

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

🇺🇸Tom Petty

Music

1950–2017

"I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!"