I love Brody Stevens. He's one of my favorite stand-ups.

True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other…

— Bob Beauprez

I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played…

— Rick Wakeman

My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

— Oscar Isaac

DJs used to mickey-take, have a real poke at Shakin' Stevens.

— Shakin' Stevens

“Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the…

— Helen Vendler

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than…

— Evan Parker

After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I…

— Laura Osnes

I heard a lot of Cat Stevens when I was a kid and, subliminally, I guess it had an effect.

— John Popper

I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens.

— R. S. Thomas

Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.'…

— Mike Nichols

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

— John Updike

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and…

— Yael Naim

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter…

— Wayne Coyne

At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes.

— Shawn Amos