Dead Artists Are Better/Quotes

"The overwhelming prerequisite for the greatness of an artist is that artist's death."

- Thiessen's Law of Art

"We all know dead rappers get better promotion."

- Jadakiss

""We gonna drop this next bomb for a money makin' playa that ain't with us no mo." "Yeah, Notorious B.I.G." "Hell no! We gonna do this for a gangbanging thug that never seen it comin'." "Yeah, Tupac Shakur!" "Nah bitch! I'm talkin' 'bout motherfuckin' Falco and shit." "What? Falco!?""

- Bloodhound Gang, intro to "Mope"

"David Morgan-Mar: So... in order to maintain my popularity, I have to stay dead? Head Death: LOOK AT HOW IT WORKS FOR OTHER ARTISTS. EMILY DICKINSON. VAN GOGH. ELVIS."

- Irregular Webcomic, strip 1890

"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."

- Max Eastman

"Diane: This happens to be a great artist! Sam: If he's a great artist, what's he doing alive?"

- Cheers

"Never age. Never die. Live forever in that one last white-hot moment, when the crowd screamed. When every note was a heartbeat. Burn across the sky. You will never grow old. They will never say you died. That’s the deal. You will be the greatest musician in the world. Live fast. Die young."

- Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

""Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.""

- John Lennon