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Quotes About Art & Entertainment

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby

Suicide is just a ceremony. Sometimes art forms, just like religion, require sacrifice. - Chen Kaige Chinese film director, on his film Farewell, My Concubine , Jan 1994.

I would rather be cut off at the knees than be perceived as selling myself. - Morrissey English rock singer and songwriter, April 1994.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. - J P Donleavy US-born Irish writer, Dec 1993.

If Shakespeare came back to life, what would he do? I'm certain he'd withdraw the play (The Merchant of Venice). - David Thacker British theatre director, April 1994.

It is always good to remember that people find it easier to name ten artists from any century than ten politicians. - John Heath-Stubbs British poet, July 1993.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

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