0021: Quotes That I Love (Sorted By Artist)
Bob Dylan
"I'm not sayin' you treated me unkind,
You could done better, but I don't mind.
You just sorta wasted my precious time.
But don't think twice, it's alright."
~"Don't Think Twice (It's Alright)" from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
"Child with a child pretending.
Weary of lies you are sending home.
So you sign all the papers in the family name,
You’re sad and you’re sorry, but you’re not ashamed.
Little green, have a happy ending."
~"Little Green" from Blue
"My old man,
He’s a singer in the park,
He’s a walker in the rain,
He’s a dancer in the dark."
~"My Old Man" from Blue
Modest Mouse
"As life gets longer awful feels softer,
Well it feels pretty soft to me.
If it takes shit to make bliss
Well then, I feel pretty blissfully"
~"The View" from Good News for People Who Love Bad News
The Streets
"It's hard enough to remember my opinions
Without remembering my reasons for them."
~"Get Out of My House" from A Grand Don't Come for Free
The Unicorns
"I was born a unicorn
I missed the ark but I could have sworn
You'd wait for me.
I was born a unicorn
I could have sworn that you believed in me
Then how come all the other unicorns are dead?"
~"I Was Born a Unicorn" from Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
The Velvet Underground
"It was good what we did yesterday
And I'd do it once again.
The fact that you are married
Only proves you're my best friend.
But it's truly, truly a sin."
~"Pale Blue Eyes" from The Velvet Underground
I like this. I'm looking forward to updates.
Eric Clapton
"I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes
And the wonder of it all is that you just don't realize
How much I love you." -- Eric Clapton, Wonderful Tonight
Artist: Peter Hammill (Van Der Graaf Generator)
Song: 'Childlike Faith in Childhood's End)'
Album: Still Life
"human we can all be, but humanity we must rise above,
in the name of all faith and hope and love,
there's a time for all pilgrims, and a time for the fakers too,
there's a time when we all will stand alone and nude,
naked to the galaxies, naked but clothed in the overview,
as we reach childhood's end we start anew,
and though dark is the highway, and the peak's distance breaks my heart,
though I never shall see it still I play my part,
believing that what waits for us, is the cosmos compared to the dust, of the past,
in the death of mere humans life shall start. "
I don't mean any disrespect, but I believe quotes and lyrics are two different things. I know you can quote a lyric, but I don't believe you can make a list of them without context. Anyone dare to definitively clarify?
Meh, I think that clever or well-written lyrics can be seperated from the songs they belong to and still make sense.
I'm not sure why I used the term quotes, I'll probably change it to lyrics.
I knew what you meant by the lyrics you 'quoted'.