“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”– Oscar Wilde Related Quotes “The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”– Edgar Allan Poe “Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can’t do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.”– Keith Richards “To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.”“- Sammy Davis, Jr.”