Quotes from authors that died on Dec 5th
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet
Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
Roone Arledge
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Alexandre Dumas
Countess of Blessington 
Dave Lombardo 
Jessica Cutler 
Rick Fox 
Keith Sweat 
Bruce Lee 
Wayne Dyer 
Tracey Ullman