Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Whenever God Shines His Light
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)
Night Owl.
Song lyrics, Night Owl (1979)
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Whenever God Shines His Light
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)
Steve Ballmer (1956) American businessman who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft
25th Anniversary Event of Microsoft at Seattle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc (5 September 2000). <br class="br">2000s
Taylor Swift (1989) American singer-songwriter
Treacherous, written by Taylor Swift and Dan Wilson.
Song lyrics, Red (2012)
Kurt Vonnegut book God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
Context: I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great, spectacularly prolific writer and scientist, Dr. Isaac Asimov in that essentially functionless capacity. At an A. H. A. memorial service for my predecessor I said, "Isaac is up in Heaven now." That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. It rolled them in the aisles. Mirth! Several minutes had to pass before something resembling solemnity could be restored.
I made that joke, of course, before my first near-death experience — the accidental one.
So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever, God forbid, I hope someone will say, "He's up in Heaven now." Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this.
My epitaph in any case? "Everything was beautiful. Nothing hurt." I will have gotten off so light, whatever the heck it is that was going on.
Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) American artist
1980's, I don't necessarily desire a perfect photography,' 1981
James Taylor (1948) American singer-songwriter and guitarist
"Fire and Rain" · Live performance (1970) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOIo4lEpsPY <br class="br">Song lyrics, Sweet Baby James (1970)