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"i just happen to be here, and it's okay." -
caetano veloso
"gotta think straight, keep a clean plate." -
joanna newsom
"keep a clean nose, watch the plain-clothes." -
bob dylan
"it took me about three or four weeks to toilet train my cat, nightlife. most of the time is spent moving the box very gradually to the bathroom. do it very slowly and don't confuse him." -
charles mingus
"she had a chihuahua named carlos that had some kind of skin disease and was totally blind." -
tom waits
"you can't hold the hand of a rock 'n' roll man." -
joni mitchell
"think about something else. was
art tatum talented?" -
shoot the piano player
"hey there, hey now, well, you can make a pacemaker blink, yeah, easy thing, make a man's heart go bibbity bom like a gentle drum. -
john cale
"i’ve still got things inside me, sad things, happy things, that people don’t know about." -
loretta lynn
"to try to maximize the relationship of listening to a record through promotion is like experiencing driving a car by reading about stimulus programs." -
bonnie 'prince' billy
"after cheesecake with all of your friends and family, who's gonna front the bill? me... say you want to take first-class trips, well i want to work those first-class hips. yes i do." -
r. kelly
"we can make each other happy, or we can make each other happy." -
harry nilsson
"my mother used to tell me about vibrations. to think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death." -
brian wilson
"i'm an idiot for you." -
iggy pop
"i mean every letter in the words in the sentences of my quotes." -
lil' wayne
"lyrics choochoo from my mouth like locomotion." -
pato banton
"i'm going to boogie my scruples away." -
lowell george
"i drive a rolls-royce, cause it's good for my voice." -
t.rex
"i'm dealing in rock and roll. i'm not a bonafide human being." -
phil spector
"at a certain point phil approached me with a bottle of kosher red wine in one hand and a .45 in the other, put his arm around my shoulder and shoved the revolver into my neck and said, 'leonard, i love you.' i said, 'i hope you do, phil.'" -
leonard cohen
"they’d whisper at each other and look at phil and whisper at each other. finally this lady, tanked, comes over to phil and says, 'alright, sonny, what’s your problem?' and he said, 'premature ejaculation, what’s yours?'" -
tom wolfe
"he's got a mind like a sewer, and a heart like a fridge" -
elvis costello
"i bite my nails and if that fails i go get myself stoned, but when i do i think of you and head myself back home." -
gram parsons
"i would say groucho marx, to name one thing, and willie mays, and the second movement of the jupiter symphony, and
louis armstrong’s recording of potatohead blues, swedish movies, naturally. sentimental education by flaubert, marlon brando,
frank sinatra, those incredible apples and pears by cézanne, the crabs at sam wo’s, tracy’s face." -
woody allen
"where have you been all my life?" -
emmylou harris, to my brother tommy
"the first time i got stoned on grass was with john paul jones of led zeppelin. we'd been talking to ramblin' jack elliott somewhere and jonesy said to me, 'come over and i'll turn you on to grass.' he had a huge room with nothing in it except this huge vast hammond organ, right next door to the police." -
david bowie
"tired of the tango? fed up with fandango? dance on moonbeams, slide on rainbows, in furs or blue jeans. you know what I mean." -
roxy music
brian eno songs that will make good book titles for my 10-volume memoir, in order: here he comes, baby's on fire, golden hours, brutal ardour, taking tiger mountain, events in dense fog, through hollow lands, some of them are old, everything merges with the night, dead finks don’t talk
ry cooder albums that every man should own: into the purple valley, boomer's story, paradise and lunch
thelonious monk's middle name: sphere
"really, we don't want people twiddling their goatees over our stuff." -
radiohead
#1 song on the white album (tie): long long long, happiness is a warm gun
"the only word is love." -
john lennon
"i love songs about horses, railroads, land, judgment day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. and mother. and god." -
johnny cash
"i could even find it in my heart to love mike love." -
belle & sebastian
"the moon is clear, the sky is bright, i'm happy as the horse's shite." -
the pogues
"i hope that you all out there, young, old, tall, short, fat or thin, quick or slow, no matter what kind or color or shape or person you are, if you like to make music, why, go ahead.” -
pete seeger
"but
chuck berry isn't merely the greatest of the rock and rollers, or rather, there's nothing mere about it. say rather that unless we can somehow recycle the concept of the great artist so that it supports chuck berry as well as it does marcel proust, we might as well trash it altogether." -
robert christgau
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