Aries
I overdosed really bad. I tried to put three quarters of a gram of coke in one shot in my arm.
I woke up with the paramedics. About six months later,
I started having anxiety and panic attacks real bad and had to get treatment for that.
That's basically when I just cleaned my life up.
Quit smoking, quit drinking.
It was either that or put a gun to my head.
- Art Alexakis, Everclear




Taurus
Music is no different from opium.
Music affects the human mind in a way that makes people think of nothing but music and sensual matters.
Opium produces one kind of sensitivity and lack of energy, music another kind.
A young person who spends most of his time with music is distracted from the serious and important affairs of life ...
we should cut out all this music and replace it with something instructive.
- Ayatollah Khomeini




Gemini
I improvised, crazed by the music. . . .
Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever.
Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.
- Josephine Baker




Cancer
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music.
In fact, drugs are dumb and self-indulgent.
Kind of like sucking your thumb.
- Courtney Love




Leo
I didn't really want to enjoy the moment.
I wanted to take drugs.
- Doug Fieger, The Knack




Virgo
Rock music ...it was music to get laid by, to take drugs by, to dance to, and question authority by.
It demanded your body, your heart, and your soul.
It was born to piss parents off.
- Stephen King

Virgo
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
- Allan Bloom




Libra
To a young composer: You must smoke- for every good musician is a smoker...
Whoever travels with me must also put up with smoking my bad cigars.
- Franz Liszt




Scorpio
There have been certain periods when I've been clean for a while and then relapsed.
I think it's an attraction to the dark side of things.
It's tied in with art and music and starts when you're young and you hear about old jazz musicians.
But you forget about how painful it actually is when you're in the middle of the addiction.
In the beginning, I remember thinking that heroin brought me a lot of objectivity.
It distanced me emotionally from what I was creating and enabled me to look at things a little bit more experimentally.
But in the end, it just distanced me so much that I emotionally couldn't make the connection to what I was writing.
- Scott Weiland




Sagittarius
If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
- Abbie Hoffman




Capricorn
Many men and women would be happier today if they could once and for all abandon the notion of keeping up a musical self and without shame let people hear them call a symphony a nuisance.
- William James



Aquarius
Rock and roll adolescents storm into the streets of all nations.
They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.
They open zoo's, insane asylums, prisons, burst water mains with
air hammers, chop the floor out of passenger plane lavatories,
shoot out lighthouses, turn sewers into water supply,
administer injections with bicycle pumps,
they s--- on the floor of the United Nations and wipe their a-- with treaties, pacts, alliances.
- William S. Burroughs




Pisces
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play every day; and take it in front of other people.
They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
- James Taylor

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Gore Vidal.

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Will Rogers.

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Alexai Sayle.

"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."
Adlai Stevenson.

"The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep."
Clinton aide George Stephanopolous.



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Bob Dole.

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Dan Quayle

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David Dinkins, New York City Mayor.

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

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Hillary Clinton.