“It's a beautiful day…
Don't let it get away”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)
Pig
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
“It's a beautiful day…
Don't let it get away”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)
“I don't love kids. I hate their predators. It's a burning hatred I feel to this day.”
Andrew Vachss (1942) American writer and lawyer
Michael Heaton Cleveland Plain Dealer on March 6, 2003
“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
Misattributed
“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Quoted by Cobain in his suicide note, this is from the song My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) by Neil Young, from his album Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
Misattributed
Variant: It's better to burn out than fade away.
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Book Two in 'The Liberation of the Master', B/O
Variant: Manuscripts don't burn.
Source: The Master and Margarita (1967)
“It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Playboy interview (1980)
Context: It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison — it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.
“Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind!”
Andrew Biersack (1990) American singer-songwriter