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"There'll be plenty of time for smoking doobies when you're living in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!" -Quote from: Chris Farley as "Matt Foley the motivational speaker" on SNL "Devil Ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it." Quote from: fear and loathing in las vegas "Never look at the backside of a mirror. You're looking at yourself backwards- No, you're looking at your inner-self, only you don't recognize it, and it frightens you." Quote from: drugstore cowboy Most people don't know how they're gonna feel from one day to the next, but a drug fiend has a pretty good idea. All you gotta do is look at the labels on the little bottles. Quote from: drugstore cowboy "your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs... i see through you." Quote from: Bill Hicks "that's an act, that's a frying pan, that's a stove, you're an alcoholic, dude, i'm tripping right now, and i still see that that's a fucking egg! alright? i see the ufo's around it, but that's a god damn egg in the middle. there's a hobit eating it, but god damnit, that hobbit's eating a fucking egg, he's on a unicorn. but, no, th- that- tha- that's a fucking egg. how dare you have a wino tell me not to do drugs." Quote from: Bill Hicks I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -Manhattan Murder Mystery Any man here steps out of line and I will kill him stone dead. It will not worry me in the slightest. There are no Queen's Regulations here. So, when I say jump - you ask how high. Do I make myself clear? I want to hear it! Do I make myself clear? Some of you know me already. Those of you who don't, are in for a great big fucking surprise. Those of you who do, can expect an infinitely more horrible time than you care to remember. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, leaughers...Also a quart of tequilla, a quart of rum, a case of budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls...But the only thing that worried me was the ehter. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge... Fate sucks. I swear. -Drugstore Cowboy Hannibal Lecter: How did you catch me, Will? Will: You had disadvantages. Hannibal Lecter: What disadvantages? WIll: You're insane. -Manhunter Yes, it's true, this man has no dick. -Ghostbusters "You gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite?" -Mr. Blonde "Reservoir Dogs" "I don't give a good fuck what you know or don't know, but I'm going to torture you anyway. Not to get information, because it's amusing to me to torcher a cop. You can say anything you want 'cause I've heard it all before." -Mr. Blond "Reservoir Dogs" What's your name, Levine? You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch? -- Glengarry Glen Ross Sure, I know how to use a sword, the pointy end goes in the man -The Mask of Zorro I find your lack of faith disturbing - Star Wars as your attorney i advise you to rent a very fast car with no top and you will need the cocain Collecting clothes Moonshine, washing line They suit him fine 'been looking all over the place for a place for me But it ain't anywhere It just ain't anywhere. Gazing through trees in sorrow hardly a sound till tomorrow “Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing” - Robert Benchley “It's the desert that makes you crazy, the loneliness out here, nobody to talk to, people on the run.” - Anon. “Every dog has its day” - Tony Montana, Scarface "A grin shows a trick up a sleeve, what a tangled web they weave" -Pete Nice - 3rd Bass “Oh the tangled web we weave, when but we practice to deceive” - Robert Browning “Good artists copy, great artists steal” - Pablo Picasso “Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that way” - Shakespeare’s King Lear The ability to quote is a servicable substitute for wit” - W. Somerset Maugham “God is in the details” - Mies van der Rohe “Some of my best thoughts are the thoughts of others” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “Though this be madness, yet there is method in it” - Lord Polonius, Hamlet, Shakespeare “Calculating binary code is as easy as 011 01 111 01 001 01 - Anon. “In Vino Veritas” - Doc Holliday, Tombstone (In wine the truth) “When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong” - Oscar Wilde “Women are meant to be loved, not understood” - Oscar Wilde “Trouves-toi un autre con” - Anon. “It was my deer, and he that wounded her hath hurt me more than had he killed me dead” -Titus Andronicus “Magni Dominator poli, Tam lentus audis scelera? Tam lentus vides? - Anon. “Delorian tremors” - Teddy Hartz “The Irish ignore anything they can’t drink or punch” - Anon. “Become one with the punch” - Bruce Lee “That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time” - John Stuart Mill “Whoever knows himself knows God” - Mohammed “Look at all those f*ckin’ Indians!” - Gen. George Custer “The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the simple man hardly anything” - Von Goethe “Along dispute means both parties are wrong” - Voltaire "Just like the birds, wing in the sky above; life ain't worth livin' if you ain't with the one you love" - Blind Boy Fuller "You can be your boots on that partner." - Kelly's Heroes "That's the funny thing about money Bud, it people do things, they don't want to do." - Wall Street "Hell of thing...killing a man, take away all he has and all he's gonna have" - Unforgiven "If I was a catfish, swimmin' in the deep blue sea" - Leadbelly "I went down to the Nation..." - Leadbelly "It's better to lose your mind, than go blind" -Dr. Lionel Bongo "Never trust a junkie" - Sid & Nancy "Never trust a man with egg on his face" - Adam Ant "So swift and that's a matter of fact, I'm like Zorro, I mark a E on your back" -Erick Sermon "I'ma go down to the library get me some ammo, you know what I'm sayin, my lethal weapons' my mind" - Ice T "But I happen to want the company, and your block of shares" -Sir Lawrence Wildman, Wall Street "You may be older than me...but you're new to this" - Roxanne Shante "We reform like Voltron and RZA just happen to be the head" - Method Man "Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why did Judas grab the Romans while Jesus slept?" - Ghostface Killa "I said I, catch the A-train, to the left, Smoke the choc', I set it off like Boba Fett" - Redman "Switchin' speeds like Bruce Lee ridin' up Fuji in a movie" - Redman Free will consists of choosing the inevitable and making the best of it. —Karl Jung Death smiles at every man. All a man can do is smile back. —Marcus Aurelius "ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE" - Sign above the gates of Hell (Dante's Inferno)) "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." --Heraclitas I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. Nancy Reagan Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. Robert Orben Does music make you happy? It made Marvin Gaye. Keith Sergeant Only the shallow know themselves. Oscar Wilde The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. Jim Samuels It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire If you talk to God you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. Thomas Szasz I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. Heine Alex, A Clockwork Orange Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well. Hi, hi, hi, Mr. Deltoid! Hi, hi, hi there! At last we meet. Our brief govoreet through the letter-hole was not, shall we say, satisfactory, yes? Naughty, naughty, naughty! You filthy old soomka! No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter. You know what you can do with that watch? Stick it up your arse! I've been doing nothing I shouldn't, Sir. The millicents have nothing on me, Brother. Well, to be perfectly honest, madam, I'm taking part in and international student contest to see who can get the most points for selling magazines. Johnny Ringo: Isn't anyone here man enough to play for blood? Doc Holiday: I'm your huckleberry. Doc Holliday: I have two guns, one for each of ya. "A gentleman is one who never swears at his wife when ladies are present". Anon "In Northern Ireland Catholics are Blacks who happen to have white skins". Anon "The English would rather make tea than trouble" "This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time". -Aneurin Bevan Liam Gallagher quotes "I've only got one thing to say. 'Sausages'." - Liam accepting a Brit Award in 1996. "Any of you touch me an' you'll get a smack, knowwhatimean?" - Liam Interviewer: I have with me one of the stars of oasis... Noel: What do you mean one of the stars? "In Liam's world it's better to talk bullsh*t all day than be silent for one minute" - Select Magazine "There are sh*t loads of meaning in the songs. I don't know what they mean, but there's still meaning there". - Liam about Noel's lyrics. "If I saw an alien, I'd tell it to fook right off because whatever planet he came from they wouldn't have the Beatles or any decent fooking music. So they can fook right off, I ain't going anywhere with them." - Liam "Course I believe in aliens. I'm not frightened by them, though. I'm as smart as them. Probably thick as fook, aren't they? Big googly-eyed heads, man, they haven't got a fooking clue." - Liam Gallagher "I'm well up for space travel. Only if I could get back, though, I wouldn't want to get lost in space. Fancy just nipping in and nipping out, just check it out. I'd do their fookin' heads in, them aliens, man. Freak 'em right out. They'd be like (alien voice), "Fooking hell! Let's get back to Planet Knob!" I'd do their heads in, frighten the life out of them! That's why they haven't landed yet. They're going "Fook that, cant land while he's about!" I'd take em' all out and get them fooking slaughtered, I would make em' turn green!" "Nobody gets Liam. Not even his wife gets Liam. Who would want to anyways?" - Noel "There was this bug in my room and I thought, 'you can fook off, this is my room.' " - Liam "I'm into the girls fancying me and stuff, mad for it. Get a bit worried if boys started fancying me, definitely. I've got nothing against gays...as long as they don't pinch me on the bum or whatever." - Liam "If you're proud about getting thrown off ferries, why don't you go and support West Ham and get the fook out of my band, and go be a football hooligan? We're musicians, right? Not football hooligans." - Noel having a heart-to-heart with Liam “Bongo Bongo Land” - Tory MP Alan Clark, describing Africa CROSLAND Anthony "If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every effing grammar school in England. And Wales. And Northern Ireland". GRIFFITHS Peter M. P. "If you want a ni**er for a neighbour vote Labour" (Election slogan of a Tory candidate who defeated Labour's Walker to win Smethwick in 1964) MAJOR John "Mad", "loopy" and "emotional" (On Margaret Thatcher).. MITTERAND François "The lips of Marilyn Monroe, the eyes of Caligula" (On Margaret Thatcher). MONTGOMMERY Viscount "This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French - but we are British, thank God" (Speaking in the House of Lords on the Bill to legalise homosexuality, 1965). NASH O. "To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is". ORWELL G. "England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly". POWELL Enoch "As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding like the Roman, I see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'. STOKES John M.P. "Why should white Rohdesians give up everything for some half-baked untried theory of one man, one vote?" THATCHER Margaret "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." "I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.". "If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim." "It will be years--not in my time--before a woman will become Prime Minister." (1974). "To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches". ALAN PARTRIDGE QUOTES AP (interviewing Michel Lambert France's 2nd best racing driver): What's your favourite haute cuisine - hot food? AP: Ok,you are a homosexual Lawyer: Bisexual AP: Doesn't matter, the point is there are blokes involved! "Well that's interesting. Because whereas you're a master of one trade, I like to think of myself as an Alan of all trades." AP: Let's take a question from the phones: David Silk. David, are you there? Are you wearing any silk? David Silk: No, I'm naked. AP(talking to a farmer) : "You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth, and the plums have mutated and they've got beaks" AP : It's funny how you get your D's mixed up with your T's, that's the behaviour of a dosser. DC: A dosser? AP:Yes a dosser and a dwad. There's dalendless shid, and rumour has it you're back on the boddle. Gid, thats git. AP: And we live together. We're not gay. I've nothing against them, it's just, as I see it, God created Adam and Eve. He didn't create Adam and Steve. I'm kind of a homosceptic. Knowing me, Alan Partridge, knowing you, the police- Aha. Alan's accusations to farmer: You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth, and the plums have mutated have have got beaks. You make pigs smoke. You feed beefburgers to swans. You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds you have 20 ft high chickens, and these chickens are scared because the don't know why they're so big, and they're going 'Oh why am I so massive?' and they're looking down at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small. Do you deny that? No, I think his silence speaks volumes. I have 104 friends. Zombies by their very nature are inconsistent SYD BARRETT QUOTES Peter Jenner: Syd was the only person I know who Roger has ever really liked and looked up to. David Gilmour: Syd was a strange guy even back in Cambridge. He was a very respected figure back there in his own way. Peter Jenner: The strongest image I have of Syd is of him sitting in his flat with a guitar and his book of songs, which he represented by paintings with different coloured circles. You'd go round to Syd's and you'd see him write a song. It just poured out. The acid brought out his latent madness. I'm sure it was his latent madness which gave him his creativity. The acid brought out the creativity, but more importantly, it brought out the madness. The creativity was there - dope was enough to get it going. He wrote all his songs, including the ones on his solo LP's, in a eighteen month period. Peter Jenner: Even at that point, Syd actually knew what was happening to him. 'Jugband Blues' is a really sad song, the portrait of a nervous breakdown. 'Jugband Blues' is the ultimate self-diagnosis on a state of schizophrenia. JUGBAND BLUES (from 'Saucerful of Secrets') It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here And I'm much obliged to you for making it clear That I'm not here. John Marsh: Syd was one of the earliest acid casualties. He lived in a flat in the Cromwell Road with various characters, among whom was a psychotic kind of character called Scotty. He was one of the original acid-in-the-reservoir, change-the-face-of-t he-world missionaries. He was also a desperately twisted freak and really malovelent crazy. Everyone knew that if you went round to see Syd never have a cup of tea, never take a glass of water unless you got it yourself from the tap and even then be des perately worried, because Scotty's thing was spiking everything. By this time, Syd was living on a diet that must have been comprised of 80% acid. Poor old Syd was really in the poo. Ian Moore: But the stuff was so strong we were absorbing it through our fingers, or more likely by licking it off them. As it took effect we had no idea which cubes we had done, so many of them probably got double doses while the rest did not have any. Syd had his plum, orange and matchbox and was sitting staring at them during his trip. Whatever he was into was his whole world - to him the plum was the planet Venus and the orange was Jupiter. Syd was floating in space between them. Syd Barrett: (on whether he had taken too much acid) Well, I don't know, it doesn't seem to have much to do with the job. I only know the thing of playing, of being a musician, was very exciting. Obviously, one was better off with a silver guitar with mirrors and things all over it than people who ended up on the floor or anywhere else in London. The general concept, I didn't feel so conscious of it as perhaps I should. I mean, one's position as a member of London's young people's (I don't know what you'd call it, underground wasn't it?) wasn't necessarily realised and felt, I don't think, especially from the point of view of groups. I remember at UFO, one week one group, then another week another group, going in and out, making that set-up, and I didn't think it was as active as it could've been. I was really surpris ed that UFO finished. Joe Boyd did all the work on it and I was really amazed when he left. What we were doing was a microcosm of the whole sort of philosophy and it tended to be a little bit cheap. The fact that the show had to be put together; the fact that we weren't living in luxurious places with luxurious things around us. I think I would always advocate that sort of thing, the luxurious life. It's probably because I don't do much work. It was all, I suppose, related to living in London. I was lucky enough...I've always thought of going back to a place where you can drink tea and sit on the carpet. I've been fortunate enough to do that. All that time...you've just reminded me of it. I thought it was good fun. Peter Jenner: (on the Pink Floyd's lip-synched appearance on 'Dick Clark's Bandstand') Syd wasn't into moving his lips that day. VEGETABLE MAN (unreleased) Vegetable man! Where are you? I've been looking all over the place for a place for me But it ain't anywhere It just ain't anywhere. He's the kind of fella you just gotta see if you can, Vegetable man. Jerry Shirley: When he plays a song, it's very rare that he plays it the same way each time - any song. And some songs are more off-the-wall than others. When he was with the Floyd, towards the very end, Syd came in once and started playing this tune, a nd played it completely different. Every chord change just kept going somewhere else and he'd keep yelling (the title), 'Have you got it yet?' I guess then it was Roger (who kept yelling back, 'No!') who kind of realized, 'Oh, dear.' It was getting abs olutely impossible for the band. They couldn't record because he'd come in and do one of those 'Have you got it yet' numbers, and then onstage he would either not play or he'd hit his guitar and just turn it out of tune, or do nothing. Jerry Shirley: Then the ultimate decision came down that if they were going to survive as a band, Syd would have to go. Now I don't know whether Syd felt it and left, or whether he was asked to. But he left. Dave w ent through some real heavy stuff for the first few months. Syd would turn up at London gigs and stand in front of the stage looking up at Dave; 'That's *my* band.' Duggie Fields: When he gave up the group he took up painting again for a bit, but he never enjoyed it. He didn't really have a sense of direction. He used to lie in bed every morning, and I would get this feeling like the wall between our rooms didn't q uite exist, because I'd know that Syd was lying in bed thinking, 'What do I do today ? Shall I get out of bed ? If I get out of bed, I can do this, and I can do that - or I can do *that*, or I could do that.' He had the world at his feet, all the possi bilities, and he just couldn't choose. He had great problems committing himself to any action. As for committing himself to doing anything for any length of time - he was the kind of person who'd change in the middle. He'd set off, lose his motivation, and start questioning what he was doing - which might just be walking down the street. Peter Jenner: Creatively, he was as dead as Jimi Hendrix. He appeard every now and then after that. Twink, from Tomorrow, tried to get him together, I tried, Dave Gilmour did sessions with him. He'd occassionally turn up to Floyd sessions and talk abou t them as 'my group'. He kept thinking he was still with them. Syd does resent the Floyd. I don't know - he may *still* call them 'my band' for all I know. Either (Syd is unable to write songs) or he won't show them to anyone Peter Barnes: (Syd's last recording dates) It was an abortion. He just kept over-dubbing guitar part on guitar part until it was just a total chaotic mess. He also wouldn't show anyone his lyrics - I fear actually because he hadn't written any. Peter Barnes: (on interviewing Syd) It was fairly ludicrous on the surface. I mean, you just had to go along with it all. Syd would say something completely incongruous one minute like 'It's getting heavy, isn't it?' and you'd just have to say, 'Yeah, Sy d, it's getting heavy,' and the conversation would dwell on *that* for five minutes. Actually, listening to the tape afterwards you could work out that there was some kind of logic there - except that Syd would suddenly be answering a question you'd aske d him ten minutes ago while you were off on a different topic completely! Jerry Shirley: Sometimes he does it just to put everybody on, sometimes he does it because he's genuinely paranoid about what's happening around him. He's like the weather, he changes. For every 10 things he says that are off-the-wall and odd, he'll say one thing that's completely coherent and right on the ball. He'll seem out of touch with what's gone on just before, then he'll suddenly turn around and say, 'Jerry, remember the day we went to get a burger down at the Earl's Court Road ?' - complete re call of something that happened a long time ago. Just coming and going, all the time. John Marsh: I saw him years later, on South Kensington tube station. He looked like a picture of the middle-aged Aleister Crowley. Totally bald, about 15 stone, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and Bermuda shorts. Gilmour?: (on Syd hearing 'Wish You Were Here') (Roger turned to Syd and asked) 'Well, Syd what do you think of that ?' Syd said, 'Sounds a bit old.' I believe Syd just got up and split not too long after that. After two years of nobody seeing him, of all the days for him to appear out of nowhere! Syd Barrett: (1971 interview) I'm really totally together, I even think I should be. Jerry Shirley: You'd get some sort of sense out of him, and then he'd just laugh at you. But now he's resigned to his fate 'Cause life's not unkind - he doesn't mind. It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here And I'm much obliged to you for making it clear That I'm not here. Moonshine, washing line They suit him fine |
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