Sasha

“I couldn’t strut around like Mick Jagger, or smash my instrument up like Jimi Hendrix or Pete Townshend: bitter subsequent experience has taught me that if you get carried away and try and smash up a piano by pushing it offstage, you end up looking less like a lawless rock god and more like a furniture removal man having a bad day.”
― Elton John, Me

“Ike and Tina Turner’s “River Deep-Mountain High,” his most ambitious record, with the biggest, most implacable sound and an arrangement that made it feel as if the record lasted a lifetime, not three and a half minutes (“That,” the Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia said, “sounds like God hit the world and the world hit back”), failed to come anywhere near the radio; Spector closed his studio and began lecturing at colleges.”
― Greil Marcus, History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

“Our life's great friendships are dropped on us in strange little ways but for providential reasons. We are meant to encounter our opposites in life and be changed by them – transformed, in some manner.”
― Richard T. Kelly, The Possessions Of Doctor Forrest

“Families routinely accepted illegitimate children so common in Italy that a foreign visitor at the time considered them one of the countrys defining characteristics. Nevertheless, bastards were penalized for being born out of wedlock. Leonardo, for instance, would not be able to attend university or to pursue professions such as medicine and law. Nor could he become a notaio like his father and great-grandfather.”
― Dianne Hales, Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered