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[Carl]

Let's fill up the quote box with lyrics or other great music-related quotes. Post here your favorites, and I'll put them into rotation.

[Foxy]

If music be the food of love, play on;

Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken, and so die.

That strain again! it had a dying fall:

O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 1

That breathes upon a bank of violets,

Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 1 scene 1

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

When griping grief the heart doth wound,

and doleful dumps the mind opresses,

then music, with her silver sound,

with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

All in all is all we are.

Kurt Cobain

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

Oscar Wilde

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

Isaac Stern

[invisible_r]

"music is your only friend, until the end" -the end, the doors

" i don't wanna come back done from this cloud, it's taken me all this time to find out what i need" - comedown, bush

"there is no always forever, just this"- there is no if, the cure

"and the spiderman is always hungry"- lullaby, the cure

"all i ever wanted, all i ever needed is here, in my arms, words are very unncessesary, they can only do harm" - enjoy the silnce, depeche mode

"no one remembers your name, when you're strange"- people are strange, the doors

"tell mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alone, in the place where i make no mistakes, in the place where i have what it takes..." - waltz no. 2. elliot smith

" I dream at night of going home someday, somewhere so far away"- miner at the dial-a-view, grandaddy

"can't you see that i am needing, begging for so much more than you could ever give, i don't want you to adore me, don't want you to ignore me, when it pleases you, i can do it on my own"- muscle museum, muse

"i'm so happy cos today i found my friend, they're in my head"-lithium, nirvana

"maybe i just wanna fly, wanna live, don't wanna die, maybe i just wanna breathe, maybe i just don't believe, maybe you're the same as me, we see things they'll never see, you and i are gonna live forever" -live forever, oasis

"you're still alive she says, but do i deserve to be, is that the question, and if so, who answers?" alive, pearl jam

"And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear

You shout and no one seems to hear

And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes

I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon"- brain damage, pink floyd

"How I wish, how I wish you were here.

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,

Running over the same old ground.

What have you found? The same old fears.

Wish you were here."- wish you were here, pink floyd

"give me areason to love you, give me a reason to be, a woman, i just wanna be a woman" - glory box, portishead

"Oh Baby, here comes the fear again.

The end is near again.

If you ever get that chimp off your back.

If you ever find the thing that you lack

but you know you're only having a laugh

& here we go again.

Until the end"- the fear, pulp

"if you think that you're strong enough, if you think you belong enough, nice dream"-nicedream, radiohead

"i wish it was the sixtess, i wish i could be happy, i wish , i wish that something would happen"- the bends, radiohead

"you do it to yourself, you do, and that's why it really hurts, cos you do it to yourself, just you, you and no one else" -just, radiohead

"i want to, i want to be someone else or i'll explode"-talk show host, radiohead

"you can feel anything you wanna feel, and call it real" flame, sebadoh

"i don't have to sell my soul, he's already in me, i wanna be adored"- i wanna be adored, the stone roses

"i am human and i need to be loved, just like everybody else does" how soon is now, the smiths

"Shyness is nice and

Shyness can stop you

From doing all the things in life

You'd like to

So, if there's something you'd like to try

If there's something you'd like to try

Ask me I wont say no, how could I?"- ask, the smiths

ok i'll stop now, sorry, i got carried away!

[Foxy]

When I became the sun

I shone life into the man’s hearts

'Toxicity' ~ System Of A Down

You know she likes the lights at nights on the neon broadway signs

She don’t really mind, it’s only love she hoped to find

'Runaway' ~ Bon Jovi

Oh, I been flying... mama, there ain’t no denyin’

I’ve been flying, ain’t no denyin’, no denyin’

'Kashmir' ~ Led Zeppelin

We’ve lost our chance.

We’re the first and the last, ooh,

After the blast.

Chips of plutonium

Are twinkling in every lung.

'Breathing' ~ Kate Bush

She’s deadly man, and she could really rip your world apart

Mind over matter

The beauty is there but a beast is in the heart

'Maneater' ~ Hall and Oates

[Foxy]

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch

Who watches over you

Make a little birdhouse in your soul

'Birdhouse In Your Soul' ~ They Might Be Giants

So much for the golden future, I can’t even start

I’ve had every promise broken, there’s anger in my heart

'Breaking The Law' ~ Judas Priest

I bet your mama was a tent show queen, and all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen.

I’m no schoolboy but I know what I like,

You should have heard me just around midnight.

'Brown Sugar' ~ The Rolling Stones

But I love you best

It’s not something that I say in jest (ha ha)

’cause you’re different, girl, from all the rest

In my eyes

'I Saw The Light' ~ Todd Rungdren

There’s a city in my mind

Come along and take that ride

And it’s all right, baby, it’s all right

'Road To Nowhere' ~ Talking Heads

Obsession rules me-I’m yours from the start

I know you see me-our eyes interlock

You come from out of nowhere

'From Out Of Nowhere' ~ Faith No More

Unicorns and cannonballs,

Palaces and piers,

Trumpets, towers, and tenemets,

Wide oceans full of tears,

Flag, rags, ferry boats,

Scimitars and scarves,

Every precious dream and vision

Underneath the stars

'Whole Of The Moon' ~ The Waterboys

Call me a relic, call me what you will

Say I’m old-fashioned, say I’m over the hill

Today’ music ain’t got the same soul

I like that old time rock ’n’ roll

'Old Time Rock 'N' Roll' ~ Bob Seger

And there’s that one particular harbour

Sheltered from the wind

Where the children play on the shore each day

And all are safe within

'One Particular Harbour' ~ Jimmy Buffet

[_jr_]

See Dick drink.

See Dick drive.

See Dick die.

Don't be a Dick.

[Foxy]

In the end you’ve got to go

Look before you leap - owner of a lonely heart

And don’t you hesitate at all - no no

'Owner Of A Lonely Heart' ~ Yes

You sleep by the silent cooling streams

Down in the darkness of my dreams

'Tiger In The Night' ~ Katie Melua

I lived like a wild and lonely soul,

Lost in a dream beyond control.

You were the one who brought me home down to earth.

'Tiger In The Night' ~ Katie Melua

Cause baby we’ll be

At the drive-in

In the old man’s ford

Behind the bushes

Till I’m screamin’ for more

Down the basement

Lock the cellar door

And baby

Talk dirty to me

'Talk Dirty To Me' ~ Poison

'Cause when a long-legged lovely walks by

Yeah you can see the look in her eye

'Hot In The City' ~ Billy Idol

You can fall for chains of silver

You can fall for chains of gold

You can fall for pretty strangers

and the promises they hold

'Romeo & Juliet' ~ Dire Straits

Now lemme tell ya my story, I got a man-sized predicament

And it’s a big one, goes like this, yeah

'Domino' ~ KISS

Every damn time I walk through that door, it’s the same damn thing

That bitch bends over, and I forget my name - ow!

'Domino' ~ KISS

There’s something sweet you can’t buy with money - lick it up, lick it up

'Lick It Up' '~ KISS

Have you run your fingers down the wall

And have you felt your neck skin crawl

When you’re searching for the light?

'Fear Of The Dark' ~ Iron Maiden

And we will live together, until the twelfth of never

Our voices will ring forever, as one

'Fantasy' ~ Earth Wind & Fire

Love, only love

Can bring back your love someday

'Still Loving You' ~ Scorpions

Jubilation, she loves me again,

I fall on the floor and I laughing,

'Cecilia ~ Simon & Garfunkel

Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin’ glass

Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.

'Superstition' ~ Stevie Wonder

[Earth-Angel]

Foxy! Awesome quotes! :guitar:

I'm in an awesome mood!

[Foxy]

I love quotes and lyrics and stuff like that...!!

[Ken]

Reading departure signs in some big airport

Reminds me of the places I've been

Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure

Makes me want to go back again

If it suddenly ended tomorrow

I could somehow adjust to the fall

Good times and riches and son-of-a-bitches

I've seen more than I can recall.

"Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"

Jimmy Buffett

[_Laurie_]

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

John Lennon

Source: Song, Imagine

Peace

If everyone demanded peace instead of another

television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

Source:quotes.prolix.nu

Dream

“A dream you dream together is reality.â€

John Lennon

Egomaniac

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do

and in my art or my music. Then in that respect you

can call me that... I believe in what I do,

and I'll say it."

John Lennon

Killing

"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!"

John Lennon

Knowledge

The more I see the less I know for sure.

John Lennon

Source:BQ

Life

Life is what happens to you while you're busy

making other plans.

John Lennon, "Beautiful Boy"

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/John_Lennon/

[_Laurie_]

Hold On

Triumph

Music holds the secret

To know it can make you whole

It's not just a game of notes

It's the sound inside your soul

[Tenacious_Peaches]

Music is a world within itself

With a language we all understand

With an equal opportunity

For all to sing, dance and clap their hands...

Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder

[Foxy]

This sh*t is bananas, B*A*N*A*N*A*S

'Hollaback Girl' ~ Gwen Stefani

[Foxy]

I’ve got your picture, I’ve got your picture

I’d like a million of them all round my cell

I want the doctor to take your picture

So I can look at you from inside as well

'Turning Japanese' ~ The Vapors

As the storm blows on

Out of control

Deep in her heart

The thunder rolls.

'The Thunder Rolls' ~ Garth Brooks

I’m not big on social graces

Think I’ll slip on down to the oasis

Oh, I’ve got friends in low places.

'Friends In Low Places' ~ Garth Brooks

Till now I always got by on my own

I never really cared until I met you

And now it chills me to the bone

How do I get you alone

'Alone' ~ Heart

I’ve had fast talking good looking men

At my door

Now I’m a wiser woman than I was before

'Tall Dark Handsome Stranger' ~ Heart

It’s 8:15, and that’s the time that it’s always been

We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you’re coming home

'Enola Gay' ~ OMD

Rumour spreadin’ a-’round in that texas town

’bout that shack outside la grange

'La Grange' ~ ZZ Top

Now watergate does not bother me

Does your conscience bother you?

Tell the truth

'Sweet Home Alabama' ~ Lynyrd Skynyrd

Love is just a lie,

Made to make you blue

Love hurts, ooh,ooh love hurts

Ooh,ooh love hurts

'Love Hurts' ~ Nazareth

[Foxy]

Rulers make bad lovers

You better put your kingdom up for sale

'Gold Dust Woman' ~ Fleetwood Mac

If I live to see the seven wonders

I’ll make a path to the rainbow’s end

'Seven Wonders' ~ Fleetwood Mac

This time I had a good time, ain’t got time to wait

I wanna stick around till I can’t see straight

'Double Vision' ~ Foreigner

You’re so good, when we make love it’s understood

It’s more than a touch or a word can say

Only in dreams could it be this way

'Waiting For A Girl Like You' ~ Foreigner

Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass.

For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas.

'Where Do The Children Play' ~ Cat Stevens

[Mike]

And through the window in the wall

comes streamin in on sunlight wings

a million bright ambassadors of morning

-Pink Floyd ~ Echoes

[RonJonSurfer]

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy

I don't mind

I think they're crazy

running everywhere at such a speed

Till they find

That there's no need

Please don't spoil my day

I'm miles away

and afterall

I'm only sleeping.

John Lennon - Revolver

[Uncle Joe]

"Let me put this hamburger down. I don't want no more of it. I wanna daaaaaaaaaance".

Archie Bell and the Drells' I Just Can't Stop Dancing

"Sure 'nuff groovin' now y'all. Look at me. Ha, ha yeah."

Archie Bell & The Drells' Same song.

[invisible_r]

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmo

Stephen Jay Gould

[Crazy Don]

I wish I was in Tijuana

Eatin' barbecued iguana

~"Mexican Radio," Wall of Voodoo

[Tenacious_Peaches]

^ I love Crazy Don. He's another one who doesn't constantly post, but when he does, it's funny/meaningful.

Rock on, Don.

[daslied]

Everything transient is but a parable;

Everything inadequate is fulfilled here;

The indescribable becomes actuality.

The Eternal-Feminine shall lead us heavenward.

-- Göethe "Faust"

"Sharp as a razor, soft as a prayer"

-- Tom Waits "Bad Liver And A Broken Heart"

"Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?"

-- Cliff Claven

[Mike]

“There are only three true sports, mountaineering, bull fighting and motor racing all the rest are just games.â€

~Ernest Hemingway

[Foxy]

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Red Auerbach

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Miles Davis

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Joseph Addison

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.

Edward Gardner

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't seen the joke yet.

Oliver Herford