"Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal. -Malcolm McLaren
"The Sea drove me away and yelled 'Go to your desire.' As I hurried up the valley it added one last yelling - "And laugh."
-Kerouac
"You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass."-- Frank Sinatra
"O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives."-- Jim Morrison
Today like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.-- Jalaluadin Rumi
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
-Bob Dylan
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time.-- Kerouac
What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music? --Hi-Fidelity
The thing you learn is that popular music is easy. The song will play itself. So all you need to do is make it sing a little, make it human, and not fuck it up.-Lou Reed
"...I want to speak for things, for the crucifix I speak out, for the Star of Israel I speak out, for the divinist man who ever lived who was a German (Bach) I speak out, for sweet Mohammed I speak out, for Buddha I speak out, for Lao-tse and Chuang-tse I speak out, for D.T Suzuki I speak out...why should I attack what I love out of life. This is Beat. Live your lives out? Naw, love your lives out."--Kerouac, Good Blondes and Others
“Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”- Stephen Hawking
"You are the music while the music lasts." - T.S. Eliot
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