Iconic Birthday Quotes From The Famous And Infamous Born On This Day In History

"The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape"

"My religion lies in my composition"

"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains"

"Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds"

"I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world"

"The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need"

"Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it"

""I hope my small little achievement can be remembered as something great by the centuries to come"

"I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile"

"I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training"

"New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong"

"The unconscious is our best collaborator"

"There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw"

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes"

"To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement"

"I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one"

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired'!"

"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts"

"He's playing the game. And if you're going to dance, you've got to pay the fiddler. You burn somebody, that's the way it is. I stabbed him in the heart twice. He died immediately"

"People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time"

"We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time"

"Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women"

"I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did"

"The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot"

"Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate"

"Art is fundamental, unique to each of us..... especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential"

"I stand on the shoulders of women who marched before me"

"What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes"

"I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth"

"I'm trying to champion the naturalist's world-view and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be"

"There is no such thing as hell but you can make it if you try"

"The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross"

"Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome"

"Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense"

"You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?"

"In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are"

"Living in Paris was a crash course in chic"

"Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously"

"So use all that is called fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all and lose all, as her wheel rolls"

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

"I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy"

"I'm more like an animalistic rock chick"

"We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down"

"You've got to play with pride and guts"

"I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself"

"A lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides"

"You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake"

"There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder"

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you"