“Ten million dollars after I’d become a star, I was deeply in debt.”

-Sammy Davis Jr

“All my life I been doin’ what people tell me to do. Now, I’m telling them.”

-John Lee Hooker

“There’s no direction. Things explode in all directions.”

-Morton Subotnick

“I wanted to buy a candle holder but the store didn’t have one. So I bought a cake.”

-Mitch Hedberg

“I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.”

-Stevie Ray Vaughan

“The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”

-Eddie Vedder

“If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.”

-Kurt Cobain

“Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.”

-Kristen Kruek

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

-Oprah Winfrey

“In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I’ve been oblivious.”

-Carole King

“My legacy is that I stayed on course… from the beginning to the end, becasue I believed in something inside of me.”

-Tina Turner

“Blues is easy to play but hard to feel.”

-Jimi Hendrix

“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget how to make a life.”

-Dolly Parton

“Only Texas could turn defeat into a legend – and a song, and a tourist attraction, and a major motion picture.”

-Rosemary Kent

“This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.”

-Pete Seeger

“When you’re creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain’t the limit.”

-Miles Davis

“If you set your goal ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”

-James Cameron

“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have, you’ll never have enough.”

-Oprah Winfrey

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”

-Groucho Marx

“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”

-Frank Zappa

“I could cry for the time I’ve wasted, but that’s a waste of time and tears.”

-Beth Nielsen Chapman

“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”

-Duke Ellington

“Going home and spending time with your family & your real friends keeps you grounded.”

-Jennifer Ellison

“Trust gets you killed, Love gets you hurt, and being real gets you hated.”

-Johnny Cash

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power. You are free.”

-Jim Morrison