I love words. If you also do, you can read some of my favorite quotes and my take on them right here.
“More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision”
-The Sopranos, Season 4
So there’s this HBO TV series called The Sopranos which was very popular during it’s time. I’d heard much about it but I never got around to watching it until my brother lent me the first seasons.
I liked the first seasons because they reminded me…
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Freedom is a possibility only if you’re able to say “no”.
-The Whitest Boy Alive, Rules
I usually say something about the artist quoted here, but I don’t really have much to say about these guys, I got this album a few days ago from a friend and I’m liking it. It’s good driving music. Driving is where I heard this quote, repeated ten thousand times. Really, the best place…
“The whole world loves you, if you are a cheap comedian”
-Part Conor Oberst, part me.
Cassadaga, Bright Eyes.
I basically made up this quote. I can be a poet too, especially since everybody is a fucking poet nowadays (something this guy touches on real nice). Well, I was listening to this song…
“It just seems like out of all the awards shows, none is more out of touch with the culture that it purports to celebrate and more deeply in the pocket of THE MAN than the Grammys.”
-Some writer over at Videogum.
It is not often that I quote what isn’t in a song or a movie, you know, scripted premeditated words. But I read this…
“What is simple in the moonlight by the morning never is…”
-Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
No, I don’t like Conor Oberst that much. He’s one of my favorite persons on earth, but I’m not obsessed with him or his work. It’s just that it’s…
Me: Have you noticed that a lot of good artists do drugs?
Friend: Yeah, that’s what makes them be awesome, it’s their fuel.
Me: Probably, but it’s stupid to need something that worsens your health, might kill you and it’s illegal in order to make good art, it’s like they’re not really coming up with their stuff, drugs are what’s coming up with the material.
Friend: Well then, fucking drugs, they are awesome artists.
“Ambition, I’ve found, can only lead to failure”
-Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes, Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Pretty much. I’ve been obsessed with this song since, like, two weeks ago. It’s so powerful and crude and long and beautiful and all kinds of adjectives. It’s real, considering this came out in ‘02,
“Sad is for the lonely”
-Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
At least that’s what I think the song says. I was told that it actually goes like “Deciders for the lonely”, but that sounds stupid,
“Religion don’t mean a thing, it’s just another way to be right wing.”
-Britt Daniel
Spoon, Kill the Moonlight
In occasion of the newest greatest album on Billboard (Transference). They finally made it big. Good for those guys. They’ve been coming out…
