August 1: Leo
Queen of Diamonds
+ generous, warm-hearted, protective, loving
- egocentric, dominating, bombastic
Born August 1st
"I ain't with that. No. I didn't give it any sanction. I think that my song was too serious. It ain't like it was Beat It. Beat It was a party song. But I think Gangsta's Paradise represented something more than that. And I really, honestly and truly, don't appreciate [Weird Al Yankovic] desecrating the song like that. I think he's wrong for that because his record company asked for my permission, and I said no. But they did it anyway. I couldn't stop him. But you know, more power to him. I hope they sell a lot of records. Just stay away from me."
"They like it when we exhibit humanness, when someone forgets the lyrics, or we blow an arrangement or start at the wrong tempo. They like the tension the music gets when we're not all in agreement. In that way, it's like a jazz audience. They're paying attention and they'll listen. This is the finest audience there is."
"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
"In the course of conversation, the chief observed that some foolish young men of his nation had told him there was a person among us who was quite black, and he wished to know if it could be true. We assured him that it was true, and sent for York; [the chief] was very much surprised at his appearance, examined him closely, and spit on his finger and rubbed the skin in order to wash off the paint; nor was it until he uncovered his head, and showed his short hair, that [the chief] could be persuaded that he was not a painted white man."