“...because once you've got one scar on your face or your heart, its only a matter of time before someone gives you another - and another - until a day doesn't go by when you aren't being bashed senseless, nor a town that you haven't been run out of, and you get to be such a goddamn mess that finally…”— Nick Cave, goodreads.com
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked t…”— Tom Waits, goodreads.com
“And the girl that my brother likes is finally talking to him And his chest is all swelled like he's proud and happy Like he's got a great idea”— Brand New, open.spotify.com
“Well I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord but you don't really care for music, do you”— Leonard Cohen, youtube.com
“Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come with talk with you again”— Simon & Garfunkel, play.spotify.com
“As I lay here tonight I keep thinking How long ago for you I was crazy And this night moves right along my mind and much my situation, And I'm feeling mighty cold and unhappy. And the songs I hear, they don't seem like they're changing And my time spent leaving far exceeds the times that I stayed An…”— Brenda Weiler, open.spotify.com
“The playback: late night, Brooklyn, a pot of coffee, and a chair by the window.”— Rob Sheffield, amazon.com
“Lou Levy, top man of Leeds Music Publishing company, took me up in a taxi to the Pythian Temple on West 70th Street to show me the pocket sized recording studio where Bill Haley and His Comets had recorded 'Rock Around the Clock'—then down to Jack Dempsey's restaurant on 58th and Broadway, where we…”— Bob Dylan, amazon.com
“Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“All 16 songs tally up to an experience that isn’t a comeback but isn’t the disaster people predicted when DeLonge left to chase aliens. Who’s to say what’s better: telling a friend ‘This is better than expected’ or ‘I didn’t hate it.’ The first implies enjoyment. The second implies stagnancy.”— NINA CORCORAN, consequenceofsound.net
“I like music because when I hear it, I … I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I’m not … for once, I’m not destroying, I’m creating.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“Said well I, I I like the cut of your jib I like the way that your face looks When you’re yapping on about him”— The 1975, youtube.com
“And she lays down on her bedroom floor The chemicals that make her laugh Don't seem to be working anymore”— The 1975, play.spotify.com
“I wish you'd walk in again Imagine if you just did I'd fill you in on the things you missed”— The 1975, play.spotify.com