"Born and bred Brooklyn U.S.A. They call me Adam Yauch, but I'm M.C.A."

"While the farmer holds title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil."

Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 - 4 July 1826), principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and the 3rd President of the United States (1801–1809).

"Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better."

Levon Helm (26 May 1940 - 19 April 2012), best known as a singer, drummer, and instrumentalist with The Band.

"I know nothing, except what everyone knows -- if there when Grace dances, I should dance."

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 - 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet.
 

"The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.”

Sandy Koufax (30 December 1935), American baseball pitcher.

"My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white... and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”

Shel Silverstein (September 25, 1930 - May 8/9, 1999), American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books.

"I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy."

Warwick Davis (born 3 Feb. 1970) English actor and star of HBO's Life's Too Short.

"The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war."

"Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by. Some music just imagined. What you don't play can be more important than what you do play."

Thelonious Sphere Monk (10 October 1917 - 17 February 1982), American jazz pianist and composer.

"We must insist upon full access to discs [UFOs] recovered. In the LA case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination."

J. Edgar Hoover (1 January 1895 - 2 May 1972), Former Director of the FBI.

"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight."

John R. "Johnny" Cash (26 February 1932 - 12 September 2003), American singer-songwriter.

"The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story."

Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo (25 March 1964), American children's author.

"The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."

"It's been a wild game. It's been a wild season."

Eli Manning (born 3 January 3 1981),

American NFL QB and Super Bowl XLVI MVP.

"The more opinions you have, the less you see."

"I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one."

"The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanisation and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music."

Bohuslav Martinů (8 Dec. 1890 - 28 Aug. 1959), Czech composer.