"Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it."

(Curtis Mayfield, cantante, chitarrista, compositore; Chicago, 3 giugno 1942 – Roswell, 26 dicembre 1999)

"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."

(Herbert Ritts Jr., fotografo; Los Angeles, 13 agosto 1952 – Los Angeles, 26 dicembre 2002)

Foto: Herb Ritts, Madonna, foto per la copertina del suo disco True Blue, 1986.

"I'm a black artist with a white skin. At the end of the day, you have to sing what's in your soul."

(Teena Marie, nome d'arte di Mary Christine Brockert, cantautrice; Santa Monica, 5 marzo 1956 – Los Angeles, 26 dicembre 2010)

"Nudity can be nice, beautiful, but should not be vulgar. It depends on which way you are treating something. I'm not for pornography. I'm for nudity, but for the classic, beautiful, clean nude."

(Sylva Koscina, attrice; Zagabria, 22 agosto 1933 – Roma, 26 dicembre 1994)

"The most memorable thing I did in that film, I believe, was my screaming. In almost all my movies since, I've been called upon to scream. I don't know if it's by chance, but I would like to think that I'm not hired for that talent alone." A proposito de La moglie di Frankenstein (1935).

(Elsa Lanchester, pseudonimo di Elizabeth Sullivan, attrice; Londra, 28 ottobre 1902 – Woodland Hills, 26 dicembre 1986)

"Nello stesso modo in cui ogni uomo possiede impronte digitali uniche, così ogni gorilla non ha forma (impronta) nasale simile a quella di un altro: lo si deduce conoscendo la forma delle narici e le pieghe profonde poste trasversalmente nel naso."

(Dian Fossey, zoologa; San Francisco, 16 gennaio 1932 – Monti Virunga, 26 dicembre 1985)