#body

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#ever #i #nobody #other #people

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#bit #celebrities #guy #i #just

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#any #because #been #come #company

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. ↗

— Jack Vance

#free #gave #haven #i #me

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#dumb #everybody #people #saying #started

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#because #dressed #had #hair #i

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#battle #body #her #love #though

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#championship #country #football #had #i

Everybody is talking today about the economy. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#economy #everybody #talking #today