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🇺🇸Danny Elfman
Entertainment
b. 1953
"You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in."
3 quotes
🇺🇸Travis Barker
Music
b. 1975
1 quotes
🇬🇧John Lennon
Music
1768–1846
"I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore"
105 quotes
🇺🇸Courtney Love
Music
b. 1964
"I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming."
56 quotes
🇬🇧George Michael
Music
1963–2016
"I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn't had anything like a gay relationship. So I spent my years growing up being told what my sexuality was really— which was kind of confusing."
4 quotes
🇺🇸Dolly Parton
Music
b. 1946
"I look so totally artificial, but I’ve always been the simplest person in the world."
12 quotes
🇺🇸Christina Aguilera
Music
b. 1980
"Even when I was little, I knew I was meant to perform. I would watch specials on TV or videos of Janet or Whitney, and I would start crying because I was like 'I want that so bad'."
3 quotes
🇺🇸Henry Rollins
Entertainment
b. 1961
"I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain."
31 quotes
🇺🇸Cass Elliot
Music
1941–1974
"I don't think it's so important who you vote for — you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way."
25 quotes
🇺🇸George Harrison
Music
1943–2001
"If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there"
21 quotes
🇺🇸Happy Rhodes
Music
b. 1965
"I wrote and recorded music for many years, thinking I was only pleasing myself. The fact that so many people have appreciated the music, makes my life incredibly rewarding and full."
13 quotes
🇺🇸Bill Cosby
Entertainment
b. 1937
"Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity."
20 quotes
🇺🇸Stevie Wonder
Music
b. 1950
"I'm happier than the morning sun,And that's the way you said that it would be,If I should ever bring you inside my life."
20 quotes

🇺🇸Jessica Simpson
Literature
b. 1980
"The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like I was super girl."
4 quotes

🇺🇸Bruce Springsteen
Music
b. 1949
"We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll."
19 quotes
🇺🇸Brandy Norwood
Music
b. 1979
"I think cooking completes you as a woman. … I woke up one morning and said, I can't do this to myself anymore. I didn't feel good. I was constipated all the time. … I used to live to eat. Now I eat to live."
1 quotes
🇬🇧Paul McCartney
Music
b. 1942
"The Art of Paul McCartney - Exhibition 2002"
23 quotes
🇺🇸Whitney Houston
Art
1963–2012
"You've got to know who you are before you step into this business, because if you're trying to find it, you'll probably wind up being somebody else, that you probably don't even like."
1 quotes
🇬🇧Elton John
Music
b. 1947
"There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome."
10 quotes
Layal Abboud
Music
b. 1982
"Every year in art is equivalent to 10 normal years ,in my opinion; Art is very tiresome and tiresome."
15 quotes
🇦🇺Daniel Johns
Music
b. 1979
"There's hopeless smiles better than mine"
45 quotes
🇬🇧Amy Winehouse
Music
1983–2011
"I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway."
7 quotes
🇺🇸Barbra Streisand
Music
b. 1942
"A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it — that's possible."
3 quotes
🇨🇦Bryan Adams
Music
b. 1959
2 quotes
🇺🇸Fiona Apple
Music
b. 1977
"I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic."
12 quotes
🇩🇪Jack White
Music
1975–2025
"I would love to be Jack White — or maybe I want the people who like Jack White to also like me. But I”m the guy who writes beautiful music at 85 beat per minute."
22 quotes
🇮🇹Raf
Music
b. 1959
"Oh the night is my world, city life painted girls, in a day nothing matters"
2 quotes
🇺🇸Cher
Music
b. 1946
"You don’t pay bucks to stand and look at someone. They’ve got to deliver something...And I’ve worked my whole life to keep my strength in my body. There are 20-year-old girls who can’t do what I do."
17 quotes

🇺🇸Sophie B. Hawkins
Music
b. 1964
"Sophie B. Hawkins at the Internet Movie Database"
8 quotes
🇲🇽José José
Art
1948–2019
"The couples I married, I never chose them, they did."
6 quotes
🇺🇸St. Vincent (musician)
Music
b. 1982
"Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking."
28 quotes
🇵🇹Salvador Sobral
Music
b. 1989
"We live in a world of disposable music; fast-food music without any content... Music is not fireworks, music is feeling. So let's try to change this and bring music back which is really what matters."
1 quotes
🇨🇳Joker Xue
Music
b. 1983
3 quotes
🇺🇸John Prine
Music
1946–2020
"Why just before last ChristmasMy baby went awayAnd I find it real surprisingFor myself to hear me sayThat everything is coolEverything's okay"
25 quotes
🇧🇷Hebe Camargo
Music
1929–2012
"I think it would not work. I would be very jealous. It would be better if it was just sex."
2 quotes
🇺🇸Al Di Meola
Music
b. 1954
1 quotes

🇺🇸Thelonious Monk
Music
1917–1982
"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
4 quotes
🇺🇸Louis Armstrong
Music
1901–1971
"The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell."
12 quotes
🇳🇴Alexander Rybak
Music
b. 1986
"Your boyfriends might be angry, my girlfriends might be blue. But no one can deny it, from now on I love you."
2 quotes
🇬🇧Natalie Imbruglia
Music
b. 1975
"It can take up to 100 chinchillas to make one coat and Jennifer Lopez has one made of 80 of them, all killed by electrocution or having their necks snapped. … Besides, wearing fur makes you look like an old woman!"
2 quotes