Quotes

Rock lyrics u love to quote. Here I go:

"The American dream includes Indians too." - Eric Burdon

"Here I go." - Syd Barrett

A quick sample:

"God finds you naked ... and he leaves you dying. What happens in between is up to you." - Robyn Hitchcock.

"Because all the sausages that dance like Ray Bolger on the hood of a car in a traffic jam know just exactly what to do." - The Butthole Surfers

"Sucking and shopping and sucking and shopping and sucking and shopping. C'mon! It's a sing-a-long!" - Bongwater

"Alive in here! I'm alive in here! I'm alive in here!" - The Chameleons UK

"You are ... you are ... you are ... UGLY!" - The Vaselines

"This world belongs to them. Now they can keep it!" - The Mekons

"Cranberry Sauce." - The Beatles

"Maybe it's better. Maybe I know that. But I can't forget the time." - Yo La Tengo

"I won't chicken out." - Mercury Rev

"And that is why I am lying when I say I don't love you no more." - Cat Power

"What kind of fuckery is this?" - Amy Winehouse

"You can't put your arm around a memory. Don't try." - Johnny Thunders

"Have yer ears been ravaged by the TV wars and all the news yer fed about the dead? You've tattooed up yer sensitive pores ... yer dizzy from the dance of the day-to-day upheaval ... well spun out in this post-modern medieval." - Giant Sand



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Love this noirish quote by Stan Ridgeway - "To spit out the window of yer car and not have the wind blow it back in yer face."

"Jerry Lee Lewis with his balls on fire in the back of a Rocket 88 with an out of state plate and an underage date" - Ike Reilly

"What you feel ........might not be" - Stone Roses

"He's too big to be a housecat.......he's too small to be a lion" - Muddy Waters (from the great song "Cross-eyed Cat")

"You lack lust - you're so lacklustre" - Elvis Costello

I go to the gym at lunch time with some guys at work. I'm generally the ringleader, so when I try to round everyone up for that day, I do it like this:

"To quote Adam Ant, 'Don't be square, be there!'"

I've been to known to toss off the Nomeansno quote: "If every third animal is a beetle, maybe every third human is a dumb fuck."

Plus the Beastie Boys: "I got money, like Charles Dickens. Got the girlies in the coop like the Colonel's got the chickens."

"There's Nazis in the bathroom just beneath the stairs." - John Lennon

I doubt a week goes by in which I don't repeat one or more of the following:

"Hi, I'm Fred–the Cancerian from New Jersey–I like collecting records and exploring the cave of the unknown"

"Hello, I'm Cindy and I'm a PisCES, and I like chihuahua and Chinese Noodles!"

"Hi, my name is Ricky and I'm a Pisces, I love computers and hot tamales"

"Hey, I'm Kate and I am a Taurus, I lo-o-ove tomatoes and black-capped chickadees"

"Hey, my name is Keith and I'm a Scorpio from Athens, G-A, and I like to find the essence from within"

I think I have "Song for a Future Generation"-specific Tourette Syndrome.

Ahhh, Jermoe, you're a man after my own heart.

don't remind me of my failures, i have not forgotten them

someday we'll look back at this, and it will all seem funny

in this ever-changing world in which we live in


.....yes, i know

"From here to here it ain't far enough, but from here to here it's too short"

I've been known to say "Charlie don't surf" when asked to do something I have no desire to do. It's from Apocalypse Now, of course, but I picked it up by way of the Clash. (The general response is "who the hell is Charlie?")

"You just haven't earned it yet, baby."

"Drink, Harry, drink til you can't drink no more of anything."



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I hate music it got too many notes- sir paul westerberg.
add on another few dozen westerberg quotes.

here are a few i used in the last few weeks.
her mascara is born to run- matthew ryan.
for every woman who made a fool for a man theres a woman who made a man of a fool- nick lowe.

stick a fork in their ass turn them over, they are done- lou reed, referring to

a quote john mellencamp said to him.

my head was beating like a song from the clash- richard thompson
what looks large from a distance close up is never that big- robert zimmerman

How could I forget this one, which I used to spout of every year during the cruelest month :

"Love and hate was in the air like pollen from a flower
And somewhere in April time they add another hour"

Questions. Questions filling the minds of the youth of America -- from "Billy the Mountain"

Ah yes, McCartney's "in....in" line. It's a palindrome except for - well, it's not.

THE MEANING OF LIFE

- "You only get one single chance, the rules are very plain - but the truth is well-concealed inside the details of the game." - Mick/Lemmy

- "Son, you better see the world. I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to leave. But one thing, son: don't lose your head to a woman that'll spend your bread." - Rod's Dad

- "Make the best out of the bad, just laugh it off. You didn't have to come here anyway." - Rod, a little older and wiser, but minus some bread for Parisian bail, denied appeals to Holy See and Beijing ferry fare (the latter offset somewhat by foregoing birth control expenses)

ONOMAOAPOEIAC INTERJECTION

- "Shah!" - Stuart

- "Whooo!" - Lou

- "Heeeee-HAWWH heee-HAWWWWH heeee-HAWWWH." - Nick

EROTICA

- "Reckless like a gambler, million dollar maybe, foaming like a dog that been infected by the rabies." - Alice

- "I'm gonna BURN YOUR BONGOS tonight." - Robyn

- "You like my seven-inch. Leather heels." - Paul

- "We could have playtime in my little playroom." - Marc

- "Everyone's feeling groovy, everyone has got tight pants on." - Guy from 20/20

"I've been waiting all night for someone like you, but ... you'll have to do." (Psych Furs)

"I told her I'm so happy I could die / She said drop dead and left with another guy." (Elvis C.)

"She's everything I love and need / But I can't be swayed by that." (Dylan)

"Me? I'm not a man ... I'm an adventure!" (Morris Day, The Time)



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"Suckin on a chili dog outside the Tastee-Freez"... - John Cougar Melloncamp

"Italian mobster shoots a lobster. Seafood restaurant gets outta hand." - The Clash



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I don't have quotes running through my head. Which is odd, since I'm generally a lyrically focused guy. Instead, I have riffs:

Sugar, "Feeling Better"
L7, "Pretend We're Dead"
Sinead O'Connor, "Mandinka" and "Emperor's New Clothes"

are a few that I often find myself humming of late. And, of course, the Who. I'm sure there are others.

I'm going Dylan:

"And it's a hard, and it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard / A hard rain's a-gonna fall. . . "

(frequently quoted by me while either calculating final grades or watching the Celtics)

"May you grow up to be righteous / May you grow up to be true / May you always know the truth / And see the lights surrounding you / May you always be courageous / Stand upright and be strong / May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young / May you stay forever young."

(when my kids are old enough, I will put this in their birthday cards. my mom put it in mine long ago, and the simplicity and purity of the sentiment--from such an unfathomable songwriter--still chokes me up a bit)

I like sluts & whores and I don't care -- G.G. Allin

"you gotta sin to be saved"... Maria McKee

"Chipmunks are GO!" - Madness

"Windows are for cheaters. Belts are for people who don't know their pants size." - Bruce Springsteen

"I wear my sunglasses at night." - Corey Hart

"I wasn't born so much as I fell out...." - Lost In The Supermarket - The Clash

Fidel castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's trying
To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
That the third world is just around the corner

Melloncamp at his most menacing: "Rain on the scarecrow, blood on the plow."