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MUSIC
“We never grow up, we only learn how to act in public.” –Bryan White, country music artist
“When
I’m with you I feel like I could die and that would be alright…”
“We
all had delusions in our head
We
all had our minds made up for us
We
had to believe in something
So
we did” –Alanis
Morissette, ‘Forgiven’
“I’ll give you a G a week for life if you can defeat me.” –Keith Murray, ‘Keep It Movin’
“If you love someone, put their name inside of a circle, not a heart, because a heart can be broken, but a circle goes on forever.” –Brian Litrell, Backstreet Boys
“You
know it’s funny, when it rains it pours. They’ve got money for wars but
can’t feed the poor.
“Send
you off to college to gain a little knowledge but all you wanna do is learn how
to SCORE!”
“You
can't just stop taking drugs or alcohol. You have to replace it with something.
I replaced it with luxury.” –Elton
John, ‘The Sun’
“Don’t let a win get to your head or a loss to your heart.” –Public Enemy, ‘He Got Game’
“If
I had it all again I’d change it all.”
–Bush, ‘Machinehead’
“…And
plan for the future, cause you figure your gonna be older way longer than your
gonna be younger.” –Sheik Loose, ‘Money,
Power, Respect’
“If
God had a name, what would it be and would you call it to his face if you were
faced with him in all his glory? What would you ask if you had just one
question?
If God had a face, what would it look like and would you want to see if seeing meant that you would have to believe in things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints and all the prophets?” –Joan Osborne, ‘One of Us’
“You claim you a thug and you ain't got no heart ha” –Juvenile, ‘Ha’
“I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” –John Cage, musician
“And I would do anything for love. I would run right up to hell and back.” –Meatloaf, ‘I Would Do Anything for Love’
“Erotica" ...[is] pornography I am willing to publicly admit I like.” –Spider Robinson, musician and author
“Six hundred pennies would hardly
suffice, if everyone
drinks immoderately and immeasurably.
However much they cheerfully drink
we are the ones whom everyone scolds,
and thus we are destitute.
May those who slander us be cursed
and may their names not be written in the
book of the righteous.” –translated from ‘Carmina Burana‘ by Carl Orf
“I am carried along
like a ship without a steersman,
and in the paths of the air
like a light, hovering bird;
chains cannot hold me,
keys cannot imprison me,
I look for people like me
and join the wretches.” –translated from ‘Carmina Burana‘ by Carl Orf
“Life is what happens when you are making other plans.” –John Lennon, singer
“Character is fate.” –Beethoven, composer
“You're the cutest thing I ever did see. Really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree” –Steve Miller, ‘The Joker’
RADIO
“Everybody’s
good at Jeopardy in their living room.” –Steve
Martorano, radio personality
“Good
judgment comes from experience and all the really useful experiences come from
bad judgment.” –from
National Public Radio
“You
keep campaigning for an ass whoopin you're gonna get elected.”
–heard on radio
“I
want people like me judging me. But I am unique. Therefore I cannot be
judged.”
–Susan Bray, radio personality