About
Bruce Springsteen: "He plays four-and-a-half-hour sets. That's
torture. Does he hate his audience?" John Lydon. About Rod
Stewart: "He was so mean it hurt him to go to the bathroom."
Britt Eklund . About Richard Wagner: "I love Wagner,
but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung by its tail outside a window and
trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws." Charles
Baudelaire. "Wagner was a monster. He was anti-Semitic on Mondays and
vegetarian on Tuesdays. On Wednesday he was in favor of annexing Newfoundland,
Thursday he wanted to sink Venice, and Friday he wanted to blow up the pope."
Tony Palmer. "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." Edgar
Wilson "Bill" Nye. "Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan
Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes." Aaron Copland.
About President George W. Bush (Son): "He is like a bad
comic working the crowd. A moron, if you'll pardon the expression." Martin
Sheen. About President Jimmy Carter: "He is your typical
smiling, brilliant, back-stabbing, bullshitting southern nut-cutter." Lane
Kirkland. About President Johnson: "He turned out to
be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace
and still had a few people left over." Herbert Mitgang. About
President Richard Nixon: "Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth
shooting is Richard Nixon." Abbie Hoffman. "He bleeds people. He draws
every drop of blood and then drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person
he can put his foot on." Martha Mitchell. "He inherited some good
instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame
them." James Reston. "He is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of
the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of
both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."
Harry S Truman . "He was like a kamikaze pilot who keeps apologizing for
the attack." Mary McGrory. "Here is a guy who's had a stake driven
through his heart. I mean, really nailed to the bottom of the coffin with a
wooden stake, and a silver bullet through the forehead for good measure -- and
yet he keeps coming back." Ted Koppel .
"I
may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad." Lyndon
Johnson. "I worship the quicksand he walks in." Art Buchwald.
"Nixon's motto was: If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." Norman
Cousins . "Sir Richard-the-Chicken-Hearted." Hubert H. Humphrey.
About President Ronald Reagan: "A triumph of the
embalmer's art." Gore Vidal. "Compared to the Clintons, Reagan is
living proof that a Republican with half a brain is better than a Democrat
with two." P.J. O'Rourke. "He doesn't die his hair - he's just
prematurely orange." Gerald Ford. "He doesn't die his hair, he
bleaches his face." Johnny Carson. "He has a chance to make somebody
move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the
postage stamps." Henry Graff "I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday
make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness." Steve Martin.
"I think Nancy does most of his talking; you'll notice that she never
drinks water when Ronnie speaks." Robin Williams. "In the heat of a
political lifetime, he innocently squirrels away tidbits of misinformation and
then, sometimes years later, casually drops them into his public discourse,
like gum balls in a quiche." Lucy Howard. "People say satire is dead.
It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. He makes a Macy's
Thanksgiving Day float look ridiculous. I think he's slowly but surely
regressing into movies again. In his mind he's looking at dailies, playing
dailies over and over." Robin Williams. "The youthful sparkle in his eyes is
caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished." Sheila
Graham. "Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth;
Reagan cannot tell the difference." Mort Sahl.
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