"As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist."

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"As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist."

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"It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Class, Future, Middleclass, Nation

"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."

Michael Caine, English Actor

Class,

"In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right."

Jack Nicholson, American Actor

Class, Right, School

"And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be."

Anne Tyler, American Novelist

Class, America, Fact

"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."

John Polkinghorne, British Physicist

Class, Years

"I walked out of class one day and I never went back."

Burt Lancaster, American Actor

Class, Day

"Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class."

C. Everett Koop, American Public Servant

Class, First, Kids, Teachers

"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."

Solomon Burke, American Musician

Class, Integrity

"There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college."

Jill Scott, American Musician

Class, College, Kids, School

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"I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place."

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"I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting."

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"When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!"

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"People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits."

People

"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."

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"But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese."

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"Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it."

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"I'm always writing or playing because that is my life."

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