Favourite Quotes (Read 11,888 times)

[Willie T. Soke]

[theyknowwhatimean]

"1...2...3...4..."
-Noel Gallagher

[davidjay]

After hearing Oasis' play I am the Walrus at Glastonbury 1994, John Peel said to Noel: "I knew Lennon and he'd have loved it."

Just read this one in a back issue of The Face, from August 1994 (the article's called "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Beatles").

[davidjay]

"In truth the mix must have been calibrated for the mixing desk itself, which at Earl's Court is some hundred metres from the stage. Where I was – about a hundred feet from the stage – the noise was so loud, so throbbing, that my trousers actually vibrated against my legs. The Dali-inspired set itself, with its tilted objects – phone booth, clock, padded bar – was coped with lights that curved up and round to form yet another shape suggestive of intimate, feminine anatomy. I've got to hand it to them – it was awesome. Whatever one's overall doubts about the status of Oasis's work to date, on Saturday night at Earl's Court, even a cynic such as myself could believe that he was in at the birth of rock history."

(Will Self on Oasis live at Earl's Court, 27th September 1997, Independent on Sunday)

[defmaybe00]

Life is too important to be taken seriously

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"When you say 'Yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'No' to yourself." Paulo Coelho

[Elie De Beaufour 🐴]

Yippee ya ya, yippee yippee-Blixa Bergeld. Let him explain:

[davidjay]

"The Radiophonic Workshop... continued to be the source of Doctor Who's most intense sonic experiments. Malcolm Clarke, a wild-eyed, foul-mouthed maverick from the workshop, used a vast machine called the EMS Synthi 100 to add ear-bleeding dissonance to a story about attacks on British shipping by a race of beaky underwater lizards. Using skills he'd developed building clandestine radio sets in German POW camps, the engineer Dave Young constructed a sound-sampling device called the Crystal Palace - a Perspex box that housed rotating vanes, a Dictaphone motor and the gold nib of a Conway-Stewart fountain pen. His colleague Brian Hodgson deployed it to build a pulsing wall of sound for "The Krotons" - Doctor Who's take on the student riots of 1968. The soundtrack has just come out on CD. Listening to it is like being brainwashed by the CIA at a Stockhausen gig."

(Matthew Sweet, 2013)

Above: Malcolm Clarke with the EMS Synthi 100 (aka "The Delaware") in the early 70s.

[Billy Davey ツ]

dunno if it's been said, but...

"This one's called live forever."

[mimmihopps]

Nov 7, 2015 8:38:50 GMT -5 Billy Davey ツ said:

dunno if it's been said, but...

"This one's called live forever."

"This one was called RocknRoll Star then".

[Elie De Beaufour 🐴]

And this is James LABHAHAHA-James LaBrie

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"Blur? A cheese-making c*nt, a new labour c*nt, a fake cockney c*nt, and a c*nt." - Frankie Boyle

[Deleted]

"you cant change the wind but you can change how you walk into it"

-friend of Gem archer.

"this ones called stand by moi"

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"Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, arrives so rarely, and even when it does it can be lost so easily."

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you didn't ask for and don't always like."

"Everybody, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that are all alone in the world. That nobody loves them now and nobody ever will love them, that they will never have a decent nights sleep again and will spend their lives walking blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up so that they can feel this way, too."

"If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then ahfjdif jfkdjjddn;5 jfkdjjd/fuo)."

"It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are only going around the corner and will be back in a few minutes with ice cream sandwiches."

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”

“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”

“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," whereas most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!”

“Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”

“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”

“It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.”

“Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.”

“Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.”

“Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.”

“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.”

“For Beatrice--My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.”

"For Beatrice--No one could extinguish my love, or your house"

"For Beatrice--Always in my heart, in my mind, and in your grave"

These are why we should all love Lemony Snicket

[theyknowwhatimean]

Resumé

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

[theyknowwhatimean]

Nov 8, 2015 15:52:58 GMT -5 The Escapist said:

"Blur? A cheese-making c*nt, a new labour c*nt, a fake cockney c*nt, and a c*nt." - Frankie Boyle

[davidjay]

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

(Mark Twain)

[boneheadsbolero]

"Today I am a pud."

-Lester Bangs-

[davidjay]

Sonic Boom (aka Peter Kember): We believe in limited resources, don't we?
Delia Derbyshire: Absolutely. I'm dead keen on limiting resources.

Sonic Boom: It stretches the mind more
Delia Derbyshire: To be given total freedom… I mean, we come back to Maya Angelou - "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." You need to have discipline in order to be truly creative. If you're just given total freedom to do anything you like... You've got to impose some discipline on either the form you're going to use or the sounds you're going to use.

Sonic Boom: Aphex Twin was saying that he's sold a lot of his equipment, because he'd sit there and look at it, and couldn't make up his mind.
Delia Derbyshire: If you cannot discipline yourself...You'd end up... "Oh I like this, I like that, I want it all at once."

Sonic Boom: There's a lot of mood and organic feeling encapsulated in your sounds, which some people wouldn't immediately associate with electronic music.
Delia Derbyshire: The boss man (at the BBC) had said that "it's impossible for electronic music to be beautiful... until Delia came along."

(Delia Derbyshire, interviewed for Pansie Cola Space Station)

[davidjay]

Daniela Soave: "Liam has a rare respect for songwriters he admires. Even if he doesn't like a band as a whole, if there's a song that has touched him in any way, he's passionate about that piece of music and its composer.

I saw this for myself one night at my house, when a whole crowd of us had come back after some mad party in town. He asked if I had Nirvana Unplugged, which threw me a little as I didn't think it was the kind of thing he'd request.

He wanted to hear 'Jesus Don't Want Me for a Sunbeam', which he used to play every day on the tour bus. When I told him it was my friend Eugene Kelly who wrote the song, Liam's eyes welled up. He went up to Eugene - who hadn't a clue about the conversation we'd just had - and shook his hand, before rushing out of the room overcome with emotion. I love the fact that Liam is so affected by the power of music - it's why he's the best singer."

(Daniela Soave, quoted in Jill Furmanovsky's Was There Then, p.91)

[Elie De Beaufour 🐴]

Eric Raffin: It is not difficult. Since I started running in 1998, except Jos Verbeeck (1999), I have known you as Golden Sulky. We have to be in awe. And younger than I have ever seen you "number one". That deserves respect. To reach such a score, you have a "thing" more?
Jean-Michel Bazire: I do not know if I have one or what. First, I do not take my head. After that I always my job with passion, watched the others do, listened and worked hard, not complex, as driver. Also, I have always led by redoing the races in my head.

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Dec 30, 2015 13:27:51 GMT -5 davidjay said:

Daniela Soave: "Liam has a rare respect for songwriters he admires. Even if he doesn't like a band as a whole, if there's a song that has touched him in any way, he's passionate about that piece of music and its composer.

I saw this for myself one night at my house, when a whole crowd of us had come back after some mad party in town. He asked if I had Nirvana Unplugged, which threw me a little as I didn't think it was the kind of thing he'd request.

He wanted to hear 'Jesus Don't Want Me for a Sunbeam', which he used to play every day on the tour bus. When I told him it was my friend Eugene Kelly who wrote the song, Liam's eyes welled up. He went up to Eugene - who hadn't a clue about the conversation we'd just had - and shook his hand, before rushing out of the room overcome with emotion. I love the fact that Liam is so affected by the power of music - it's why he's the best singer."

(Daniela Soave, quoted in Jill Furmanovsky's Was There Then, p.91)

Wow!

Great quote, I read that Liam had a similar experience when he heard the song "Luv" by Travis.

[Willie T. Soke]

[mimmihopps]

What goes around, comes around.

[davidjay]

"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
(Bertrand Russell).