#roc

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being. ↗

— Phil Spector

#bona #bona fide #dealing #fide #human

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#came #disc #first #friends #grade

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#chamber #counsel #end #found #haul

You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, & partly from an unhealthy & reverie-like vividness of Thoughts, & (pardon the pedantry of the phrase) a diminished Impressibility from Things, my ideas, wishes, & feelings are to a diseased degree disconnected from motion & action. In plain and natural English, I am a dreaming & therefore an indolent man. I am a Starling self-incaged, & always in the Moult, & my whole Note is, Tomorrow, & tomorrow, & tomorrow. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#indolence #procrastination #dreams

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. ↗

— Russell Banks

#become #honest #imaginative #intelligent #life

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#far right #frankly #going #i #left

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#being #big #big change #change #ever

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#by the people #constitutional #creation #defined #families

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#am #atrocity #between #cause #disaster

We can get airplay all across the board, from CHR to Active rock. ↗

— Steve Brown

#active #airplay #board #get #rock