"Great artists suffer for the people."

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Marvin Gaye

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.”
“Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.”

Source : Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, is said to have remarked, "You don't have to be nice to people you meet on the way up if you're not coming back down again."
“Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul.”
“It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.”

Source : Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com. July 31, 2012.
“I think its good to stimulate your mind.”
“It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (1904). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”
“If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.”
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.”

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