Entertainment Quotes - Page 17

• She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Media, Age

  Song: All The Wrong Reasons

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  She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

  Avril Lavigne

  Art, Space, Media

  Song: Sk8er Boi, Album: Let Go, 2002

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• She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

  Elvis Costello

  Art, Media, News

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• She wants to lead the glamorous life, but without love, it ain't much.

  Sheila E.

  Art, Media, Want

  Song: Glamorous Life

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• She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.

  Thomas Dolby

  Art, Stars, Media

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• She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

  Elton John

  Art, Media, Suits You

  Song: Bennie and The Jets

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• She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.

  Phil Ochs

  Art, Media, Desire

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• Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

  Leonard Cohen

  Art, Loneliness, Gun

  Song: Love Calls You By Your Name, Album: Songs of Love and Hate, 1971

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• Since fat crayons, I write and display chaos. My plan is damage.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Art, Writing, Media

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• So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

  Eric Clapton

  Art, Thinking, Media

  Song: Tulsa Time, Album: Backless, 1978

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• Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Bed

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• Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.

  Brad Paisley

  Art, Media, Needs

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• Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Dignity

  Song: Dignity

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• Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.

  Jack Johnson

  Art, Son, Gun

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• Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

  Al Yankovic

  Art, Media, Naked

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• Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Media, People

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• The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

  George Strait

  Art, Media, Lust

  Song: Murder On Music Row

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• The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

  Leonard Cohen

  Art, Media, Longing

  Song: Death Of A Ladies' Man, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

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• The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

  Song: In The City

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• The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.

  Buck Owens

  Art, Media, Fool

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• The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

  Ray Davies

  Christian, Art, Night

  Song: Give the People What They Want, Album: Give the People What They Want

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• The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Media, Age

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.292, Da Capo Press

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• The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Blow, Media

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

  Van Morrison

  Art, Fog, Media

  Song: Aryan Mist, Album: Beautiful Vision

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• The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Tonight

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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