#roc

Rock & Roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back the beat so you could dream. A whole generation running with a Fender bass... The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty? Perhaps I should die. After all, all the great blues singers did die. But life is getting better now. I don't want to die. Do I? - Lou Reed (1965-1968) ↗

— Legs McNeil

#dreams

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#embedded #fashioned #fixed #human #human spirit

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

#attempt #entirely #far #game #get

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#basis #different #discrimination #ideologies #insisted

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies. ↗

— Judith Butler

#analytically #cannot #class #critique #different

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock. ↗

— Brett Favre

#classic #classic rock #country #good #i

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. ↗

— Lord Byron

#convert #could #five #four #give

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#answered #best #creeds #dark #fears

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#image #kind #make #myself #outlaw

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio. ↗

— Jonathan Cain

#american music #ashamed #because #grew #music