Your Favorite Quotes! - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Community Center > The Lounge > Games, Lists, Jokes and Polls
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 04-01-2017, 05:07 PM   #141 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
innerspaceboy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: The Organized Mind
Posts: 2,044
Default

Quote:
There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people. And if you wondered what Time sounded like it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain. And, going further, what did Time look like? Time look like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theater, 100 billion faces falling like those New Year balloons, down and down into nothing. That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded. And tonight-Tomas shoved a hand into the wind outside the truck-tonight you could almost taste time.
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chula Vista View Post
You are quite simply one of the most unique individuals I've ever met in my 680+ months living on this orb.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Trollheart View Post
You are to all of us what Betelgeuse is to the sun in terms of musical diversity.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Exo_ View Post
You sir are a true character. I love it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Batlord View Post
You, sir, are a nerd's nerd.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marie Monday View Post
Just chiming in to declare that your posts are a source of life and wholesomeness
The Innerspace Connection | Essential Recordings | Top Archives | Hot 100 Albums | Top 550 Artists
innerspaceboy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-04-2017, 03:48 PM   #142 (permalink)
mayor of spookytown
 
Chiomara's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 812
Default

We will not end the nightmare. We'll only explain it.
— The Twilight Zone

I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
— Brian Eno.

This is of two worlds–the one diurnal men know and that other world where lunar mottled eels stir like dreams in shallow forest water.
— Christopher Dewdney, opening lines to “This is of two worlds …,” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English, chosen by Margaret Atwood (Oxford University Press, 1982)

the unmade places
don’t exist unless we walk in them
— Philip Salom, from “Six in a Row of Made Things,” The Rome Air Naked

Landscape and memory are concepts that are strongly interwoven with the identity of a place and its inhabitants. Local myths, associations, habits, and rituals, shared fears, collective memory and common feelings are all intangible elements of a place that give it a certain allure and atmosphere, its sense of place, its genius loci. It is not only how a place is but also how it makes us feel, how we live and perform in it.
— Panita Karamanea, from “Landscape, Memory, and Contemporary Design,” Craft + Design Enquiry (Issue 7, 2015)
Chiomara is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-08-2017, 01:16 PM   #143 (permalink)
mayor of spookytown
 
Chiomara's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 812
Default

Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.
— Angela Carter, from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; “Wolf-Alice”
Chiomara is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-08-2017, 03:30 PM   #144 (permalink)
Godless Ape
 
Akai's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Britannia
Posts: 1,255
Default

Only Zappa;


''One of my favourite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds''

''Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read'' -FZ

''If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library''

''No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to''

''Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff''

''Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe''

''Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST''

''Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid''

''There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another''

''I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird''
__________________

''To be honest, in my opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view,
but also by looking into this matter from a different perspective and by considering each and every one's valid opinion,
I do believe that I forgot what I was going to say.''



S p o t i f y
Akai is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-08-2017, 10:34 PM   #145 (permalink)
Remember the underscore
 
Pet_Sounds's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: The other side
Posts: 2,488
Default

"Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal... There is a tendency... for certain people to use this phrase of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe—some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cake than others—some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of men."

—Atticus Finch, in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
__________________
Everybody's dying just to get the disease
Pet_Sounds is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-09-2017, 11:44 AM   #146 (permalink)
mayor of spookytown
 
Chiomara's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 812
Default

Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than have syntax. Or semicolons. I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after “semicolons,” and another one after “now.”And another thing. Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than get old. And he did. He shot himself. A short sentence. Anything rather than a long sentence, a life sentence. Death sentences are short and very, very manly. Life sentences aren’t. They go on and on, all full of syntax and qualifying clauses and confusing references and getting old. And that brings up the real proof of what a mess I have made of being a man.
— Ursula K. Le Guin

People can’t anticipate how much they’ll miss the natural world until they are deprived of it.
I have read about submarine crewmen who haunt the sonar room, listening to whale songs and colonies of snapping shrimp. Submarine captains dispense “periscope liberty” - a chance to gaze at clouds and birds and coastlines - and remind themselves that the natural world still exists. I once met a man who told me that after landing in Christchurch, New Zealand, after a winter at the South Pole research station, he and his companions spent a couple of days just wandering around staring in awe at flowers and trees. At one point, one of them spotted a woman pushing a stroller. “A baby!” he shouted, and they all rushed across the street to see. The woman turned the stroller and ran.
Nothing tops space as a barren, unnatural environment. Astronauts who had no prior interest in gardening spend hours tending experimental greenhouses. “They are our love,” said cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov of the tiny flax plants - with which they shared the confines of Salyut 1, the first Soviet space station. At least in orbit, you can look out the window and see the natural world below.
On a Mars mission, once astronauts lose sight of Earth, they’ll be nothing to see outside the window. “You’ll be bathed in permanent sunlight, so you won’t eve see any stars,” astronaut Andy Thomas explained to me.
“All you’ll see is black.”
— Mary Roach. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.
Chiomara is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-11-2017, 11:12 PM   #147 (permalink)
SOPHIE FOREVER
 
Frownland's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: East of the Southern North American West
Posts: 35,541
Default

"No one can justify their existence by linking their happiest moments to a kind of rosary."
-Neon Genesis Evangelion
__________________
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Frownland is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-12-2017, 03:43 AM   #148 (permalink)
Zum Henker Defätist!!
 
The Batlord's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beating GNR at DDR and keying Axl's new car
Posts: 48,199
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Frownland View Post
"No one can justify their existence by linking their happiest moments to a kind of rosary."
-Neon Genesis Evangelion
I've lost count of how many times that quote has come bubbling up from my subconscious to ruin my day.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
The Batlord is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-13-2017, 05:03 PM   #149 (permalink)
mayor of spookytown
 
Chiomara's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 812
Default

Why are you kissing me? You know perfectly well that I’m fundamentally loathsome.
— Blue Of Noon, Georges Bataille
Chiomara is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-13-2017, 05:59 PM   #150 (permalink)
Account Disabled
 
[MERIT]'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Missouri, USA
Posts: 4,814
Default

"We are shadows of tender fury; our dark wings will cover the sky again, and their protective cloak will shelter the dispossessed and the good men and women who understand that justice and peace go hand in hand. If they deny us our rights, then our tender fury will enter those fine mansions. There will be no fence our shadow will not jump over; no door will be left unopened, no window left unbroke, no wall left standing. Our shadow will bring pain to those who call for war and death for our race; more tears and blood will flow before peace can sit down at our table with goodwill."

~ Zapatista Army of National Liberation
[MERIT] is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.