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Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Marilyn vos Savant

American magazine columnist, author and lecturer

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

Larry Niven

American writer

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Ramakrishna

Indian mystic and religious preacher (1836-1886)

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

Ramakrishna

Indian mystic and religious preacher (1836-1886)

I know acts and I’m not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it’s considered a failure and they’re dropped and that’s really a shame.

Gerry Beckley

American musician

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Thomas Love Peacock

English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

Mary MacLane

American writer (1881-1929)

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

Mickey Spillane

American writer (1918-2006)

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can’t mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.

Tobe Hooper

American film director, screenwriter and producer (1943-2017)

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I’ve got all these names… but my Dad always called me Mick.

Mickey Spillane

American writer (1918-2006)

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