Art Quote by Eric Drooker

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked…

— Ai Weiwei

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and…

— Ray Manzarek

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

— Nat Hentoff

I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.

— William S. Burroughs

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

— Ai Weiwei

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it…

— Rita Dove

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

— Ai Weiwei

I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And…

— Lana Del Rey

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to…

— Kevin Bacon

I met Andy Warhol in the '60s, a wonderful time, with wonderful people. There was Fred Hughes, and Jed Johnson, who I liked a…

— Pierre Berge

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to…

— Lee Konitz