#roc

You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear. ↗

— Lou Brutus

#rock #rock-and-roll #rock-music #music

The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos. ↗

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

#rap #rap-rock #rock #music

My life was over, finished, and I’d never seen Pearl Jam play live ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#kristen-ashley #music #pearl-jam #rock-chick #rock-music

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that. ↗

— Win Butler

#hip-hop #music #rock #music

Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go.. ↗

— Nick Santino

#adventure #crazy #danger #free #music

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#short-stories #writing-process #nature

Also, I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue--the clue--lies there. I'm always ferreting out elliptical points, odd angles. What I write doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There is fun and religion and psychotic horror strewn about like a bunch of hats. Also, there is a social or sociological drift--rather than toward the hard sciences, the overall impression is childish but interesting. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#religion

BRITANNUS (shocked). Caesar: this is not proper. THEODOTUS (outraged). How! CAESAR (recovering his self-possession). Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#parochial-thought #xenophobia #nature

Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#procrastination #procrastination

He adored force and hated weakness. It is the crime of female natures. ↗

— François Mauriac

#nature