“I would rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I am 45.”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
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The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
“I would rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I am 45.”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
“I’d rather be a live pessimist than a dead comedian.”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) American mystery and speculative fiction writer
Source: Short fiction, Future Tense (1964), Sail 25 (p. 93)
James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) American journalist
Contentment, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
Arthur Waley (1889–1966) British academic
Response when offered the Chair in Chinese at Cambridge, as quoted in Orientalism and the Operatic World (2015) by Nicholas Tarling, p. 78
“I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.”
Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon
Source: His Majesty's Dragon
Frederick Herzberg (1923–2000) American psychologist
Source: Work and the nature of man, 1966, p. 76
Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author
Source: Waking Up With the Duke
Ricky Hatton (1978) English former professional boxer
Ricky Hatton reveals he has two front row tickets for a Tom Jones concert http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/6310365.stm