“I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.”
-BE-
"One baby to another says, 'I’m lucky to have met you'.
I don’t care what you think unless it is about me.
It is now my duty to completely drain you.
I travel through a tube and end up in your infection"
-KC-
I once was lost, but now I'm found
The music washes over, and you're one with the sound
Well, who shall inherit the earth? The meek shall
And, yo, I think I'm starting to peak now, Al
And then the man upstairs, well, I hope that he cares
If I had a penny for my thoughts, I'd be a millionaire
We're just three MCs, and we're on the go
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego!
"My headphones
They saved my life"
-Björk-
“When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.”
-AKT-
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”
-MD-
"You got my heart, you got my soul.
You got the silver you got the gold."
-KR-
“God breathes through us so completely... so gently we hardly feel it... yet, it is our everything.”
-JC-
“Living off borrowed time, the clock tick faster // That’d be the hour they knock the slick blaster // Dick Dastardly and Muttley with sick laughter”
-DD-
“How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.”
-JC-
“I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did, I would kneel down and ask him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Will not to touch a hair on your head
Leave you as you are
If he felt he had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms”
-NC-
"I tried to run away myself
To run away and wrestle with my ego
With this, this flame
You put here in this Eskimo
In this hitcher
In this prisoner
Of the fine white lines
Of the white lines on the free, freeway"
-JM-
"And I swear to you.
I would never feed you pain.
But you’re staring at me."
-CC-
“No helicopter lookin' for the murder
Two in the morning, got the Fatburger
Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp
And it read "Ice Cube's a Pimp"”
-OJ-
"Watch out now, take care
Beware of the thoughts that linger
Winding up inside your head
The hopelessness around you
In the dead of night
Beware of sadness
It can hit you
It can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for"
-GH-
"All broken down by the side of the road
I's never more alive or alone
I've worn the faces off all the cards
I'm gonna take it with me when I go
The children are playing at the end of the day
Strangers are singing on our lawn
It's got to be more than flesh and bone
All that you've loved is all you own"
-TK-
"I’m not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I’m having fun
I think I’m dumb
Or maybe just happy"
-KC-
"I Jack, I Rob, I sin,
Ah man, I’m Jackie Robinson"
-SC-
“Just relax, you're doing fine
Swimming in this real thing I call life
Can I bring a few companions on this ride?”
-TM-
We are temporal silver men in sulfur vessels
A percussion rinse
We are disc cultivators at this fatalistic gala
-EA-
Do you climb into something you don't know
If it entices and mesmerizes you
Some Quasimodo snaps a photo
Sketchy evidence they might misconstrue
-MG-
Where I end
and you begin
I wanna find... that line
and cross it back and forth
until it's erased
by our foot steps
by our foot steps
by our foot steps
-JF-
"Some day, yeah
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter"
-SV-
"Life’s so hard on a G, but I somehow, someway, keep coming up with funky a** sh** like every single day."
-CB-
"Try to have more faith and less fear
Try to express it to your peers"
-EJA-
"Garbage ain't collected, women ain't protected
Politicians using, people they're abusing
The mafia's getting bigger, like pollution in the river
And you tell me that this is where it's at"
-SDR-
"I love you in a place
Where there’s no space or time
I love you for my life
You’re a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember when we were together"
-LR-
"So I keep on writin meditatin in the ghetto
Makin love waitin for lost minds to settle
Then I speak out, because we all need the guidance
Deep down inside us where you could define science
My mother told me, when I was so stressed out
'All you gotta do is just put your best out'"
-DH-
"Angels laid him away
They laid him six feet under the clay
Angels laid him away"
-JH-
“Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.”
-JNO-
“Is your figure less than Greek?
Is your mouth a little weak?
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?
But don't change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is Valentine’s Day”
-LH-
"Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere."
-KR-
“Don’t worry about a thing, / ‘Cos every little thing is gonna be alright.”
-BM and the Wailers-
"Let's see with our heart
These things our eyes have seen
And know the truth will still lie
Somewhere in between
Under Eternity
Under Eternity
Under Eternity
Blue
Bird of Paradise
Fly
In white sky
Under Eternity"
-RH
"Gentleness clears the soul, love cleans the mind and makes it free."
-DB-
" I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go."
-LS-
"Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam."
-TA-
“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
-FZ-
"Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you"
-PF-
"You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!"
-KR-
"It's always about the music, never about anything else"
-EVH-
"This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
It's not what I'm like
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
Who couldn't get things right
A fond farewell to a friend"
-ES-
“I don't mind stealing bread / From the mouth of decadence / But I can't feed on the powerless / When my cup's already over-filled / But it's on the table”
-Temple of the Dog-
"The sun is gone, but I have a light."
-KC-
"If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine"
-FA-
“What is the secret of this tie that binds
Two souls in communion, both body and mind
Is it special magic or just the nature of things?
Conceived of great spirit, not for beggars but kings”
“Two Souls in Communion”
RM
"If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music."
-GB-
Lately I wonder what I do it for
If l had my way
I'd just walk out those doors
And wander
Down the Champs Elysees
Going cafe to cabaret
Thinking how I'll feel when I find
That very good friend of mine
-JM-
“It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine”
-R.E.M.
“The No. 1 reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they’ve gotten.”
-MM-
" I like seeing good people win."
-MM-
" I just wanted to be different; I didn't wanna sound like anybody else"
-BM-
“Even though you’re fed up, you gotta keep your head up.” —“Keep Ya Head Up”
"It's not what it isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness."
-JJ-
"Let's swim to the moon, uh huh
Let's climb through the tide
Penetrate the evening that the
City sleeps to hide
Let's swim out tonight, love
It's our turn to try
Parked beside the ocean
On our moonlight drive"
-JM-
“We only said goodbye with words/ I died a hundred times/ You go back to her/ And I go back to black”
-AW-
"She'll come back as fire
To burn all the liars
Leave a blanket of ash on the ground"
-KC-
"I feel stupid and contagious"
-KC-
"I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing."
-CW-
"Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing."
-LC-
"The guns replace the plow
Facades are tarnished now
The principles have been betrayed
Would dreams gone stale but still let hope prevail
The history's debt won't be repaid"
-NP-
"Just between us
I think it's time for us to recognize
The differences we sometimes feared to show
Just between us
I think it's time for us to realize
The spaces in between
Leave room
For you and I to grow"
-NP-
"Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free"
-NP-
"Everyone would gather on the 24th of May
Sitting in the sand to watch the fireworks display
Dancing fires on the beach, singing songs together
Though it's just a memory, some memories last forever"
-NP-
"When the going gets tough
And the stomach acids flow
The cold wind of conformity
Is nipping at your nose
When some trendy new atrocity
Has brought you to your knees
Come with us we'll sail the
Seas of cheese"
-LC-
"One doesn’t want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music."
-AL-
“I feel that we're living in an era that seems to have forgotten what can and will happen when fascism rears its head. I think we all need reminding of it in the face of those who either deny the past or never knew about it in the first place.”
-GL-
"When doors are all closed tightly
With words the only keys
You may understand the reason
Why I'm floating on the breeze"
-TM-
“Sail me on a silver sun, where I know that I'm free / Show me that I'm everywhere, and get me home for tea.”
-GH-
"Yellow buttercup, helicopters
Orange buttercat
Chasing after the crazy bee
Mad about somebody, oh no"
-PF-
"Nothing you can make that can't be made (love)
No one you can save that can't be saved (love)
Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time (love)
It's easy"
-JL-
"There's no time to lose, " I heard her say
Catch your dreams before they slip away
Dying all the time
Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind
Ain't life unkind?
-KR-
"If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket."
-MM-
"We talked with tall Venusians passing through
And Peter tried to climb aboard but the Captain shook his head and away they soared
Climbing through the ivory vibrant cloud
Someone passed some bliss among the crowd and we walked back to the road, unchained"
-DB-
"We passed upon the stair/ We spoke of was and when/ Although I wasn't there/ He said I was his friend.”
-DB-
"Baby, I've been
Breaking glass
In your room again
Listen
Don't look at the carpet
I drew something awful on it
See
You're such a wonderful person
But you got problems oh-oh-oh-oh
I'll never touch you"
-DB-
“Every now and then the past will ring a bell, I'm not looking back I’m only moving forward, if I knew then what I knew know I wouldn’t be here anyhow”
-WLA-
"While chunks the size of Delaware are falling off the poles
Our heads are buried in the sand, our leaders dug the holes
Like junkies hooked on fossil fuels, heading for withdrawal
How long until there's nothing left at all?"
-WLA-
"Picking apples for the kings and queens of things I've never seen."
-JT-
"I'm down on my hands and knees every time the doorbell rings. I shake like a toothache when I hear myself sing."
-JT-
.
"People have a tendency - you let your ego get in the way of the big moments."
-DT-
"A lot people hit the road trying to make some cash. We are out here trying to do something that we really believe in. That's what all of our musical heroes always did."
-DT-
"It never felt so good
It never felt so right
And we were glowing like
A metal on the edge of a knife"
-JS-
"I’m not present
I’m a drug that makes you dream
I’m an Aerostar
I’m a Cutlass Supreme
In the wrong lane
Trying to turn against the flow
I’m the ocean
I’m the giant undertow"
-NY-
"I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything."
-TH-
"Shelter me from the powder and the finger
Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
Think of me as one you'd never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone
Remember me to my love
I know I'll miss her"
-NY-
"You were my raft and I let you slide
It seemed like such a long easy ride
I was adrift on a river of pride
Feels like a railroad, I pull a whole load behind me"
-NY-
"Am I hard enough?
Am I rough enough?
Am I rich enough?
I'm not too blind to see"
-KR-
"I went back to see the gypsy
It was nearly early dawn
The gypsy's door was open wide
But the gypsy was gone
And that pretty dancing girl
She could not be found
So I watched that sun come rising
From that little Minnesota town"
-BD-
Absorbed in the clouds, a voice from afar said
"With the right device, you can make a pattern grow
Or you can tune up your car"
-MG-
"Nothing is planned, by the sea and the sand
-PT-
"Is that a wind, or a bug?
Is a windora bug"
-TM-
"Sound check's at 5:02
Record stores and interviews
Oh, but I can't wait
To be with you tomorrow"
-JR-
"And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die.
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry."
-RP-
"Of all the things I value most in life
I see my memories
And feel their warmth
And know that they are good"
-MB-
"Quick to judge, quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand"
-NP-
"Some fellows look and find the sunshine
I always look and find the rain
And some fellows make a winning sometime
And I never even make a gain
I'm always chasing rainbows waiting to find the little bluebird in vain"
-AC-
"Welcome to my nightmare!
I think you're gonna like it!
I think you're gonna feel you belong!"
-AC-
"But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn."
-SR-
"Me and my harp was a love affair from way back."
-MJ-
"And some say the end is near
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this
Stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit"
-MJK-
"Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison."
-BG-
"And when I watch you move
And I can't think straight
And I am silenced
And I can't think straight"
-PJH-
"I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through."
-GL-
"I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues."
-JLH-
"Stars exploding
The long night passing
Electrons dancing in the frozen crystal dawn
Here's one left stranded at the zero crossing
With a hole of it's half-life left to carry on
But now the world's much larger than it looks today
And if my bad luck ever blows me back this way"
-WB-
"My pain is self-chosen
At least I believe it to be
I could either drown
Or pull off my skin and swim to shore
Now I can grow a beautiful shell for all to see"
-LS-
"Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate."
-KH-
"If not for you, my sky would fall
Rain would gather, too
Without your love I'd be nowhere at all
I would be lost, if not for you"
-BD-
"Oh, I do believe
you are what you perceive
What comes is better than what
came before"
-LR-
"Many people love me, many people hate me - there's nobody in between. That's the way I prefer it."
-JAG-
"I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions... but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it."
-LK-
"Situations get fucked up
And turned around sooner or later
I could be another fool
Or an exception to the rule
You tell me the morning after"
-ES-
"Well, I'm just a modern guy
Of course, I've had it in the ear before
Been on a lust for life
'Cause of a lust for life"
-JNO-
"He sees the silent hollow sky
He sees the stars come out tonight
He sees the city's ripped backsides
He sees the winding ocean drive"
-JNO-
"I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?"
-JB-
"I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly."
-JB-
"My father's house shines hard and bright
It stands like a beacon calling me in the night
Calling and calling so cold and alone
Shining 'cross this dark highway
Where our sins lie unatoned"
-BS-
"It's all we're skilled in
We will be shipbuilding.
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls"
-EC-
"And I feel like I've been here before
Feel like I've been here before
And you know, it makes me wonder
What's going on under the ground"
-DC-
"And the songbirds are singing,
Like they know the score
And I love you, I love you, I love you
Like never before"
-CM-
"Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn't have."
-DR-
"What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!"
-SR-
"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time."
-IS-
"Now my hair has turned to silver
All my life I've loved in vain
I can see her star in heaven
Blue eyes crying in the rain"
-WN-
"It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics."
-CB-
"Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name."
-CB-
"I've always been fascinated by the duality of human nature. Good and evil, light and darkness."
-TF-
"Of all these weird creatures
Who lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves
And live for their secrets
They're all uptight"
-TY-
"Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here"
-TY-
As he saw his life run away from him
Thousands ran along
"Chanting words from a song
"Please me have no regrets"
"Please me have no regrets"
Came from the baby's mouth
We follow the lines going south
"Please me have no regrets"
Came from the, came from the, came from the... baby's mouth!
We follow the line going south!"
-EA-
"Drop me off the Chinese wall
And peel my fingers off the rim
I come unglued while in midair and land to reform
Limb by limb"
-TM-
“Here we shower ourselves in lightness”
-MG-
"I grab myself and spin me around I start to sprint.
I climb down to steadier ground.
If I can bushwhack it on back to the shack
Behind those hills I'll find the world is finally still"
-MG-
"And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much about Desolation Row"
-BD-
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
-IS-
"We will go
Nowhere we know
'Til we find our one and all
Hand me downs
Flypaper towns
Stuck together, one and all"
-BH-
“I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.”
-GV-
"I think the blues will always be around. People need it."
-JW-
“Goddamn, I love paper like I'm Michael Scott”
-AP-
"I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit."
-JG-
"I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, 'Bing!' I only recall that happening to me twice - once was with 'Terrapin' and the other was 'Wharf Rat.' I mean, that's twice in a lifetime of writing!"
-JG-
"I'm a witness to the fight between the darkness and the light."
-WA-
"Down by the river, the waters cold, used to have a girl, she came to me in a dream, and slipped away like a running stream."
-WA-
But every time it rains
You’re here in my head
Like the sun coming out
Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen
-KB-
And in your dreams
You can see yourself
"As a prophet
Saving the world
The
Words from your lips
I just can't believe
You are such
A fool"
-FZ-
"Why don't we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?"
-PM-
"I can't tell you how I feel
My heart is like a wheel
Let me roll it
Let me roll it to you"
-PM-
So be it, I'm your crowbar
If that's what I am, so far
Until you get out of this mess
And I will pretend
That I don't know of your sins
Until you are ready to confess
But all the time, all the time
I'll know, I'll know
-FA-
"Some folks would be happy just to have one dream come true
But everything you gather is just more that you can lose."
-RH-
"I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like."
-JG-
"There's one thing that makes me sick
It's when someone tries to hide behind their politics
I wish that time could go by fast
Somehow they manage to make it last"
-JR-
"Lying in beds of garlic and orchids, he closes an eye, which closes another
and in sleep he dreams, of watching and looking and feather clouds dancing
He curls up his lid and sleeps..."
...by Ween
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
-JH-
"I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success."
-WC-
“What’s cooler than being cool?”
-AB-
"Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured."
-AP-
“I’ve learned that I’m most powerful when I’m doing my art.”
-AB-
“So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He’s testing your faith again.”
-KL-
"If I gave you diamonds and pearls
Would you be a happy boy or a girl
If I could I would give you the world
But all I can do is just offer you my love"
-Prince-
"My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Fairy tales of yesterday, grow but never die
I can fly, my friends"
-FM-
"No matter how you slice your day
or dream of places far away
or try to set your world apart
You always end up where you start
A bunch of cells below the soil
Some plasma in a lake of oil
I don't think that when I depart
I'll be close to where I start"
-TM-
"Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life."
-KR-
"The trick was to surrender to the flow"
-EA-
So hover in the diving light
We will rip the night
Out of the arms of the sun one more time
Close your eyes and we will fly
Above the clouded sky
And over the dumbstruck world we will run
-CC-
"The blues ain’t nothing but a lowdown shaking chill
If you ain’t had ‘em I hope you never will
Oh, the blues is a lowdown old aching chill
If you ain’t had ‘em boys, I- I hope you never will"
-EJH-
"Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward."
-EJA-
"Where I come from, gettin' visual is habitual..."
-GG-
"Fusion of the five elements to search for the higher intelligence…"
-RFD-
"Snowy night, fiends basing
A raisin in the sun was amazing…"
-CW-
"The master of the plan, rappin’ shit like Saran…"
-CS-
"Sometimes I look up at the stars and analyze the sky,
And ask myself: was I meant to be here...why?"
-DC-
"I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses Can’t define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me"
-JH
"Here I go, deep type flow,
Jacques Cousteau could never get this low…"
-RTJ-
"Sailin’ heart ships through broken harbors
Out on the waves in the night
Still the searcher must ride the dark horse
Racing alone in his fright"
-NY-
“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”
-TM-
“The loudest noise in the world is silence.”
-TM-
"The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, / so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.”
-BM-
"Most things I worry about never happen anyway."
-TP-
"In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don’t ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through"
-HL-
"Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest
We want sanitary food, planetary conquest"
-LJH-
"Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!"
-SP-
"Though I could not caution all
I still might warn a few
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools"
-RH-
"There are times when you offend me
And I do the same to you
If we can't or won't forget it
I guess we could be through"
-RH-
"Thank you, for a real good time!"
-RH-
"Come on baby, baby please come on baby, cause I'm on my knees
Turn on your lights let it shine on me turn on your love light
Let it shine, let shine"
"Strange beautiful grass of green
With your majestic silver seas
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer
May I land my kinky machine"
-JH-
"Attention all planets of the Solar Federation...We have assumed control."
-NP-
"Real G’s move in silence like lasagna“
-WC-
"Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be."
-Slash-
