Quotes Page

On this page I am going to put some of my favorite quotes, mostly from songs:

"No, I don't believe in luck, no I don't believe in circumstance, accidents never happen, in a perfect world"-Jimmy Destri

"If you think you know what I'm doing wrong, you're gonna have to get in line"-Ani DiFranco

"All you want to do is something good, so prepare to be ridiculed and misunderstood"-Aimee Mann

"I'm not like them, but I can pretend, the sun is gone, but I have a light"-Kurt Cobain

"I fear that I am ordinary just like everyone"-Billy Corgan

"Atomic lasers falling from the sky, where's my umbrella?"-Fred Schneider

"I don't think that you can see that the hand you hold is the hand that holds you down"-Art Alexakias

"Non-recognition is the way to keep everything you want to hide"-Kay Hanley

"Where is it at when your moral is a hat full of money?"-Linda Perry

"Some hills are never seen"-Kate Pierson

"You don't have to be a famous person just to make your mark"-Gwen Stefani

"Just because I've shown my body doesn't mean I've bared my soul"-Madonna

"What's the matter with the truth did I offend your ears?"-Aimee Mann

"You can't make love out of plastic and clay"-Angie Hart

"A heart that hurts is a heart that works"-Juliana Hatfield

"Loving is giving oneself, and to give oneself is to give one's life"-Eva Peron

"It's hard to confuse power with love"-Sam Phillips

"I'm no heroine, at least not last time I checked"-Ani DiFranco

"I don't need to fight, to prove I'm right"-Pete Townshend

"I hate unsatisfied curiousities"-Silk, from David Edding's book, "Magician's Gambit"

"Well, we all make mistakes it just figures you'd make me the biggest one"-Aimee Mann

"Pain is pleasure when it's televised"-Sam Phillips

"Our ideas of perfect are so imperfect"-Sam Phillips

"How can I shield myself from the things that I hear?"-Juliana Hatfield

"We won't stop 'til we're underneath a black sky"-Sam Phillips

"Give me a reason to be beautiful"-Courtney Love

"The stars must be my friends to shine for me tonight"-Christine McVie

"There is nothing that love cannot achieve and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice. Pure love is matchless in majesty, it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel."-Meher Baba

"Leave your scene of destruction and join us in revolution!"-Yoko Ono

"Children, don't do what I have done, I couldn't walk, and I tried to run"-John Lennon

"War is over if you want it!"-John & Yoko

"Dream we dream alone is only a dream, dream we dream together is reality"-Yoko Ono

"They joke about the status quo to break the ice, once the ice is broken I hope they all fall through"-Ani DiFranco

"Uninvent the wheel of endless greed, let conscience flow like a river, like a dreamer"-Sam Phillips

"We count the lights in the universe and tell each other, this life is a helluva lotta waiting time"-Yoko Ono

"No one can hate me the way I hate myself"-Jimmy Newquist

"All this action no satisfaction, we're all linked together like a chain reaction"-Mike D, Beastie Boys

"You don't have to agree with me, but once you get me going you better just let me go"-Ani DiFranco

"Try to keep clear of that hate and spite, so I keep my mind still like the still of night"-Mike D, Beastie Boys

"They hate you if you're clever, and and they despise a fool"-John Lennon

"Now who in the world do you want to fight, it's against the system we should unite, homophobics ain't alright, if you learn to love then you might love life"-Adam "Adrock" Horovitz, Beastie Boys

"He said change the channel, I've got problems of my own, I'm so sick of hearing about drugs and AIDS and people without homes, and I said well, I'd like to sympathize with that, but if you don't understand then how can you act"-Ani DiFranco

"Please forgive me for my distance, the pain has ever haunted my existence"-Fiona Apple

"We are all polylingual but some of us pretend that there is virtue in relying on not trying to understand, we're all citizens of the womb before we subdivide, into races and shades, this side, that side"-Ani DiFranco

"Why do you say you are spiritual yet you treat people like shit? How can you say you're close to god and yet you talk behind my back as though I am not a part of you?"-Alanis Morissette

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable."-Paul Tillich

"Through their own words, they will be exposed, they've got a severe case of the emperor's new clothes"-Sinead O'Connor

"When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men--and a discharge for loving one"-Former Air Force Sgt. Leonard Matlovich

"I think now that many people become accustomed to social injustice in the first years of their lives. Even the poor think the misery they endure is natural and logical. They learn to tolerate what they see or suffer, just as it is possible to acquire a tolerance for a powerful poison."-Eva Peron

"I think that if anyone finds himself suddenly carried to a post or responsibility in the fight for a great cause, he should search in his life and in his past for some explanation, and he will be sure to find it"-Eva Peron

"When I turn to look they're making sex, carry obsession to market, I'm so confused"-Sam Phillips

"Conformity is our tragedy"-Leah Andreone

"I can think of a word for myself but no name"-Sam Phillips

"I can't explain to you what I don't understand"-Juliana Hatfield

"Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"

FZ: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"--Frank Zappa responding to an interviewer

"Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years"-Tori Amos

"You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not"-Frank Zappa

"Like any uncharted territory,I must seem greatly intriguing"-Alanis Morissette

"Why do I run away when I come face to face with anything I need"--Sam Phillips

"There's a river of love that runs through all times"--T-Bone Burnett

"The sex you're trading up for, what you hope is love, is just another thing that he'll be careless of"--Aimee Mann

"Don't come on to me with all those fancy lines, I can read between them they're like neon signs, you just want to get me into bed, so stop pretending that you like my head"--Christina Amphlett

"It's not what you thought when you first began it, you got what you want, now you can hardly stand it, though by now you know it's not going to stop, 'til you wise up"--Aimee Mann

"My fear is to leave here, never having really arrived"--Sam Phillips

"Can you save me, from the ranks of the freaks, who suspect they could never love anyone"--Aimee Mann

"Mind's eye can only see so far, and reason can only guess, but knowing you see more than what meets the eye, helps me see through my helplessness"--Sam Phillips

"I'm Irish, I'm English, I'm Moslem, I'm Jewish, I'm a girl, I'm a boy"--Sinead O'Connor

"I know that I have done many things to give you reason not to listen to me, especially since I have been so angry, words can't express how sorry I am if I ever caused pain to anyone, but I hope that you can love me enough to just please listen"--Sinead O'Connor

"You can counteract a disease only by its antidote. Love is the antidote to hatred. When you feel like hating a man try to remind yourself that he is a form of your own Self"--Meher Baba

"You say life is a bowl of cherries, while you give me a bowl of pits, still the pits will grow into trees one day, so i'm getting my cherries anyway"--Yoko Ono

"There's nothing like regret to remind you you're alive"--Sheryl Crow

"Just one question, before I pack, when you fuck it up later, do I get my money back?"--Aimee Mann

"It was so much easier before you became you"--Sheryl Crow

"My life's a mess, and I'm trying to grow, you think that i'm strong, you're wrong"--Robbie Williams

"Unless we tell each other, what we really feel, how are we gonna communicate and get our world together"--Yoko Ono

"One day at a time is all we do, one day at a time is good for you"--John Lennon

"Yes, I'm a bitch, I'm a witch, I don't care what you say, my voice is real, my voice speaks truth, I don't fit in your ways"--Yoko Ono

"A man is a man, when he can offer his hand"--Pete Townshend

"You have the right to free speech, provided of course you're not dumb enough to actually try it"--Joe Strummer

Tracy (female owner of a porn magazine): "Now, like you Ms. Sugarbaker, I am a feminist...in fact, our publication is a major contributor to the National Organization of Women."

Suzanne: Well, I donate to the Humane Society, but that doesn't make me a cat"--Designing Women

"U.S. Army only wants a few straight men"--Sheryl Crow

"Why do we take pleasure in other people's failures"--John Wesley Harding

"No one said it would be easy, but no one said it'd be this hard"--Sheryl Crow

"Diamonds in the street are just like glass when they cut your feet"--Sam Phillips

"I've tried but can't find refuge in the angle, I'll walk the mystery of the curve"--Sam Phillips

"I hope I don't sound as immature as I feel, I'll call you when I get wise my friend"--Pete Townshend

"You're so afraid of what you want that you don't want it anymore"--Sam Phillips

"We all are witness to the rape of the earth"--Tracy Chapman

"No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned"--Pete Townshend

"I think you mean crazy BITCH"--Drew Barrymore in Charlie's Angels, after bomber is thwarted by her alter ego, LL Cool J, and calls her a bastard

Roger Corwin: I could use someone with hands like you on my staff

Alex: My hands aren't going anywhere near your staff"--Charlie's Angels

"Commandment Three says do not kill, amendment two says blood will spill"--Dan Bern

"If the world is so insane, is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your nodding head?"--Natalie Merchant

"At the bottom of the ocean, you might find a pearl, don't let your heart get broken by this world"--Dan Bern

"Tell me what makes you so afraid, of all these people you say you hate"--Adam Yauch Go Back