Street Artist

🇺🇸Paul Bettany

Entertainment

b. 1971

"Because it doesn't happen like this, where we're having an interview and it sort of turns into a conversation--and a quite gratifying one, because it's all about me."

🇬🇧Banksy

Politics

contemporary art

b. 1973

"Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it."

🇺🇸Dave Chappelle

Entertainment

b. 1973

"Never in a million years will you hear somebody on the radio say "I'm up for runnin' up on them crackers in city hall."

🇺🇸Amanda Palmer

Music

b. 1976

"A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest."

🇺🇸Hank Williams

Music

1923–1953

"A good song is a good song, and if I'm lucky enough to write it, well....! I get more kick out of writing than I do singing. I reckon I've written a thousand songs and had over 300 published."

🇨🇦Leonard Cohen

Literature

1934–2016

"And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty."

🇺🇸Pete Seeger

Music

1919–2014

"A productive mistake is: made in the service of mission and vision; acknowledged as a mistake; learned from; considered valuable; shared for the benefit of all."

🇺🇸Ani DiFranco

Music

b. 1970

"Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now."

🇺🇸Steve Martin

Entertainment

b. 1945

"The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need. My name in print. That really makes somebody. Things are going to start happening to me now!"

🇺🇸River Phoenix

Music

1970–1993

"I don’t see any point or any good in drugs that are as disruptive as cocaine. I never tried heroin. I tried alcohol and most of the others when I was 15, and got it out of the way—finished with the stuff."

🇺🇸Wesley Willis

Music

1963–2003

"Stop shooting old ladies." - Stop the Violence"

🇺🇸Utah Phillips

Politics

1935–2008

"I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time."

"The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own."

🇺🇸Louis Armstrong

Music

1901–1971

"The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell."