My Favorite Music Quotes

"Bill Barilko disappeared that summer, he was on a fishing trip.
The last goal he ever score, won the Leafs the cup. They didn't win another until 1962, The year he was discovered.

I stole this from a hockey card, I keep tucked up under my fifty mission cap, I worked it in to look like that." - Fifty Mission Cap

"Stare in the morning shroud and then the day began, I tilted your cloud, you tilted my hand. Rain falls in real time and rain fell through the night. No dress rehearsal, this is our life.

But that's when the hornet stung me, And I had a serious dream
with revenge and doubt. Tonight we smoke them out.

You are ahead by a century (this is our life) You are ahead by a century (this is our life). You are ahead by a century.

You are ahead by a century (this is our life). You are ahead by a century (this is our life). You are ahead by a century.

And disappointing you is getting me down." - Ahead By a Century

"It's a sad thing, bourbons all around. To stop that feeling when you're living, in a small town."

Can't live to die, too easy. Why stick around. Not another small town hometown bringdown." - Small Town Bringdown

"I got to your house this morning, just a little after nine. In the middle of that riot, couldn't get you off my mind. So I'm at your house this morning, just a little after nine. 'Cause it was in Bobcaygeon, where I saw the constellations, reveal themselves one star at a time." - Bobcaygeon

"The secret rules of engagement are hard to endorse, when the appearance of conflict meets the appearance of force. But I can guarantee, there'll be no knock on the door. I'm total pro here, that's what I'm here for. I come from downtown, born ready for you. Armed with skill and it's frustration, and grace, too. - Grace, Too

"If I die of vanity, promise me, promise me. If they bury me some place I don't want to be. You'll dig me up and transport me, unceremoniously. Away from the swollen city breeze, garbage bag trees. Whispers of disease and the acts of enormity. And lower me slowly and sadly and properly get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy." - At The Hundredth Meridian

"So don't become some background noise, abackdrop for the girls and boys. Who just don't know and just don't care, and just complain when you're not there. You have the time you have the power, you've yet to have your finest hour. Radio (Radio)." - Radio Ga Ga

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality. Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see. I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy.

Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low. Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me." - Bohemian Rhapsody

"The show must go on. The show must go on, yeah yeah. Ooh, inside my heart is breaking. My make-up may be flaking, but my smile still stays on." - The Show Must Go On

"Who wants to live forever, Who wants to live forever..... There's no chance for us, It's all decided for us, This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us." - Who Wants To Live Forever

"It's the terror of knowing, what the world is about. Watching some good friends, screaming "Let me out". Pray tomorrow gets me higher." - Under Pressure

"I've taken my bows, and my curtain calls. You brought me fame and fortune, and everything that goes with it. I thank you all. But it's been no bed of roses, no pleasure cruise. I consider it a challenge before the whole human race, and I ain't gonna lose." - We Are The Champions

"I look at the world and I notice it's turning. While my guitar gently weeps, with every mistake we must surely be learning. Still my guitar gently weeps." - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

"Blackbird singing in the dead of night. Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise." - Blackbird

"Though I know I'll never lose affection, for people and things that went before. I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more." - In My Life

"But still they lead me back, to the long winding road. You left me standing here, a long long time ago. Don't leave me waiting here. Lead me to your door." - The Long and Winding Road

"There's nothing you can do that can't be done. Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game. It's easy.

Nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. It's easy." - All You Need Is Love

"Bright are the stars that shine, dark is the sky. I know this love of mine will never die." - And I Love Her

"There's talk on the street, it's there to remind you. That it doesn't really matter which side you're on. You're walking away and they're talking behind you. They will never forget you till, somebody new comes along." - New Kid in Town

"Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? You been out ridin' fences for so long now. Oh, you're a hard one, I know that you got your reasons. These things that are pleasin' you, can hurt you somehow." - Desperado

"Mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice. And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device." And in the master's chambers, they gathered for the feast. They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast." - Hotel California

"It would be great to be so strong, you never needed anybody's help to get along. We're so scared of the silence, and the language that we use. Yeah we're careful and we're cunning, but we're easily bruised. I don't want to kid about it. I'm not bulletproof." - Bulletproof

"I never meant to make you cry, and though I know I shouldn't call. It just reminds us of the cost, for everything we lost. Bad timing that's all.

And maybe soon there'll come a day, when no more tears will fall. We each forgive a little bit, and we both look back on it. It's just bad timing that's all." - Bad Timing

"I can go for being twice as nice. I can go for just repeating the same old lines. Use the body, now you want my soul. Ooh, forget about it, now say no go." - I Can't Go For That

"My friends wonder why, I call you all of the time. What can I say, I don't feel the need to give such secrets away.

You think maybe I need help, no, I know that I'm right. I'm just better off, not listening to friends' advice. When they insist on knowing my bliss, I tell them this, when they want to know what the reason is. I only smile when I lie, then I tell them why." - Kiss On My List

"So needless to say, I'm odds and ends. I'll be stumbling away, slowly learning that life is okay. Say after me, it's no better to be safe than sorry." - Take On Me

"Touch me, how can it be. Believe me, the sun always shines on TV. Hold me, close to your heart. Touch me, and give all your love to me. To me." - The Sun Always Shines On TV

"Under blue moon I saw you,0s soon you'll take me. Up in your arms, too late to beg you or cancel it. Though I know it must be the killing time, unwillingly mine." - The Killing Moon

"Billy stands, all alone sinking sand, skin and bone. Bring on the dancing horses, wherever they may roam. Shiver and say the words, of every lie you've heard." - Bring On the Dancing Horses

"Oh girl, when I'm in love with you, keep fishin' if you feel it's true." - Keep Fishin'

"When you're on a holiday, you can't find the words to say. All the things that come to you, and I wanna feel it too.

On an island in the sun, we'll be playing and having fun.
And it makes me feel so fine, I can't control my brain." - Island In The Sun

"Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said: "Don't look back, you can never look back." - Boys of Summer

"You can lay your head back on the ground, and let your hair fall all around me. Offer up your best defense, but this is the end. This is the end of the Innocence." - The End of The Innocence

"Haven't had a dream in a long time. See the life I've had can make a good man bad.

So for once in my life, let me get what I want. Lord knows it would be the first time. Lord knows it would be the first time." - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

"You shut your mouth! How can you say I go about things the wrong way? I am a human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does." - How Soon Is Now

"And it's hard to love, there's so much to hate. Hanging on to hope, when there is no hope to speak of. And the wounded skies above say it's much too late. Well maybe we should all be praying for time." - Praying For Time

"You know our love was meant to be, the kind of love that lasts forever. And I want you here with me, from tonight until the end of time. You should know, everywhere I go. Always on my mind, in my heart, in my soul. Baby."

"You're the meaning in my life, you're the inspiration. You bring feeling to my life. You're the inspiration. Wanna have you near me. wanna have you hear me sayin'. No one needs you more than I need you. - You're the Inspiration

"So don't say no, don't say nothing's wrong. 'Cause when you get back home, maybe I'll be gone, oh."

"It would cause me pain, if we were to end it. But I could start again. You can depend on it." - Better Be Home Soon

"There is freedom within, there is freedom without. Try to catch a deluge in a paper cup. There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost. But you'll never see the end of the road, while you're traveling with me." - Don't Dream It's Over

"I've looked under chairs, I've looked under tables. I've tried to find the key, to fifty million fables. They call me The Seeker, I've been searching low and high.

I won't get to get what I'm after, till the day I die. I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked The Beatles, I asked Timothy Leary. But he couldn't help me either.

They call me The Seeker, I've been searching low and high. I won't get to get what I'm after. Till the day I die." - The Seeker

"Sally, take my hand, travel south crossland. Put out the fire, don't look past my shoulder. The exodus is here, the happy ones are near. Let's get together, before we get much older." - Baba O'Riley

"I woke up in a Soho doorway, a policeman knew my name. He said you can go sleep at home tonight, if you can get up and walk away.

I staggered back to the underground, and the breeze blew back my hair. I remember throwin' punches around, and preachin' from my chair." - Who Are You

"I'll tip my hat to the new constitution, take a bow for the new revolution. Smile and grin at the change all around.

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday. Then I'll get on my knees and pray, we don't get fooled again."

"Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss." - Won't Get Fooled Again

"Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets high on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you." - Tom Sawyer

"Some will sell their dreams for small desires, or lose the race to rats. Get caught in ticking traps, and start to dream of somewhere. To relax their restless flight, somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights..." - Subdivisions

"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill; I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose Free Will." - Free Will

"The floods is threat'ning, my very life today. Gimme, gimme shelter, or I'm gonna fade away." - Gimme Shelter

"I shouted out, Who killed the Kennedys? When after all, it was you and me." - Sympathy For The Devil

"I look inside myself and see my heart is black. I see my red door, I must have it painted black. Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts. It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black." - Paint It Black

"We went down to the demonstration, to get your fair share of abuse. Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration. If we don't we're gonna blow a fifty-amp fuse". - You Can't Always Get Want You Want

"I know I've dreamed you a sin and a lie. I have my freedom but I don't have much time. Faith has been broken tears must be cried. Let's do some living after we die." - Wild Horses

"Who's gonna pick you up, when you fall? Who's gonna hang it up, when you call? Who's gonna pay attention, to your dreams? Who's gonna plug their ears, when you scream?" - Drive

"Pretty looking road I try to hold the rising floods that fill my skin. Don't ask me why, I'll keep my promise melt the ice. And you wanted to dance, so I asked you to dance. But fear is in your soul. Some people call it a one night stand, but we can call it paradise." - Save A Prayer

"Don't you know you need some time all alone.I know it's hard to keep an open heart. When even friends seem out to harm you. But if you could heal a broken heart, wouldn't time be out to charm you. Sometimes I need some time on my own. Sometimes I need some time all alone. Everybody needs some time on their own.
Don't you know you need some time all alone." - November Rain

"I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes. I know there's fish out there but where God only knows. They say these waters aren't what they used to be. But I've got people back on land who count on me." - Downeaster 'Alexa'

"Don't ask for help, you're all alone. Pressure. You'll have to answer, to your own. Pressure. I'm sure you'll have some cosmic rationale, but here you are in the ninth. Two men out and three men on. Nowhere to look but inside, where we all respond to. Pessure. Pressure." - Pressure

"All the servants in your new hotel, throw their roses at your feet. Fool them all but baby I can tell, You're no stranger to the street. Don't ask for favors, don't talk to strangers. Don't ask me why." - Don't Ask Me Why

"Take me to the place where you go, where nobody knows if it's night or day. But please don't put your life in the hands, of a Rock n Roll band. Who'll throw it all away." - Don't Look Back In Anger

"If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long. When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on." - Everybody Hurts

" The other night I dreamt of knives. Continental drift divide. Mountains sit in a line. Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly beans, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.

It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone). It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone). It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)." - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"

"Buy the sky and sell the sky, and lift your arms up to the sky. And ask the sky, and ask the sky. Fall on me (what is it up in the air for). Fall on me (if it's there for long). Fall on me (it's over, it's over me)." - Fall On Me

"Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep. Dreaming about the things that we could be. But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard. Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars. Yeah we'll be counting stars." - Counting Stars

"But my love for Felina is strong, and I rise where I've fallen. Though I am weary, I can't stop to rest. I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle. I feel the bullet go deep in my chest.

From out of nowhere Felina has found me, kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side. Cradled by two loving arms that I'll die for. One little kiss, then Felina goodbye." - El Paso

"This desperation, dislocation. Separation, condemnation, Revelation in temptation, isolation, desolation. Let it go. And so fade away, to let it go. And so fade away. To let it go, oh now, and so to fade away.

I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake. Wide awake. I'm not sleeping. Oh, no, no, no." - Bad

"Early morning, April four. Shot rings out in the Memphis sky. Free at last, they took your life. They could not take your pride." - Pride (In The Name of Love)

"I believe in the Kingdom come, then all the colors will bleed into one. Bleed into one, but yes I'm still running. You broke the bonds and you. You loosened the chains. you carried the cross. Of my shame, oh my shame.

You know I believe it, but I still haven't found, what I'm looking for. But I still haven't found, what I'm looking for."

- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

"You can build a mansion but you just can't live in. You're the fastest runner but you're not allowed to win. Some break the rules and live to count the cost. The insecurity is the thing that won't get lost.

And you want her, and she wants you. We want everyone. And you want her, and she wants you. No one, no one, no one ever is to blame." - No One Is To Blame

"I watch the ripples change their size, but never leave the stream. Of warm impermanence, and so the days float through my eyes.

But still the days seem the same, and these children that you spit on. As they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're goin' through." - Changes

"Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles. I'm feeling very still, and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows.

Ground Control to Major Tom, Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong. Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you..." - Space Oddity

"There's a starman waiting in the sky. He'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds. There's a starman waiting in the sky. He's told us not to blow it,'cause he knows it's all worthwhile." - Starman

"I, I wish you could swim. Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim. Though nothing, nothing will keep us together. We can beat them, forever and ever. Oh, we can be heroes, just for one day." - Heroes

"Sailors fighting in the dance hall. Oh man! Look at those cavemen go. It's the freakiest show. Take a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guy. Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know. He's in the best selling show. Is there life on Mars?" - Life On Mars?

"There's a brand new dance but I don't know its name. That people from bad homes do again and again. It's big and it's bland full of tension and fear, they do it over there but we don't do it here." - Fashion

"They got a message from the Action Man. "I'm happy. Hope you're happy, too. I've loved. All I've needed: love. Sordid details following." - Ashes To Ashes

"You're fooling yourself if you don't believe it. You're kidding yourself if you don't believe it. Get up, get back on your feet. You're the one they can't beat and you know it. Come on, let's see what you've got. Just take your best shot and don't blow it." - Fooling Yourself (the Angry Young Man)

"Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto, for doing the jobs that nobody wants to. And thank you very much, Mr. Roboto. For helping me escape just when I needed to, thank you, thank you, thank you. I want to thank you, please, thank you." - Mr. Roboto

"As I walk through, this wicked world. Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity. I ask myself, is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?

And each time I feel like this inside, there's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh. What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?" - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding

"Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking, when I hear the silly things that you say. I think somebody better put out the big light, cause I can't stand to see you this way.

Alison, I know this world is killing you. Oh, Alison, my aim is true. My aim is true." - My Aim Is True

"Oh, let it rock, let it roll. Let the bible belt come and save my soul. Holdin' on to sixteen as long as you can. Change is coming 'round real soon, make us woman and man." - Jack & Diane

"And now, I'm glad I didn't know. The way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives, are better left to chance. I could have missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss The dance."- The Dance

" Ninety nine dreams I have had. In every one a red balloon. It's all over and I'm standing pretty, in this dust that was a city. If could find a souvenir, just the prove the world was here. And here is a red balloon, I think of you and let it go. - 99 Red Balloons

"Well, I won't back down, No, I won't back down. You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.

No, I'll stand my ground, won't be turned around. And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down. Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down." - I Won't Back Down

"The waiting is the hardest part, every day you see one more card. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart. The waiting is the hardest part." - The Waiting

"Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores. Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more. They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks. Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown. Your hometown." - My Hometown

"Sounds across the nation, coming from your hearts and minds. Battered drums and old guitars, singing songs of passion. It's the truth that they all look for. Something they must keep alive. Will the wolf survive?"- Will The Wolf Survive?