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"I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is."
"I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere."
"The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into an advantage."
"I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp."
"Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it? David Byrne: I would get something to eat."
"It's like 60 Minutes on acid."
"It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off."
"The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having been naughty."
"I don't think it's very easy to make friends with musicians. We're all a bit paranoid. It soon becomes very heavy."
"Oh father high in heaven — smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games — his women and his gun."
"In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him."
":2 And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over all the earth when it was suited to Man."
":3 And on the seven millionth day Man rested and did lean heavily on his God and saw that it was good."
":4 And Man formed Aqualung of the dust of the ground, and a host of others likened unto his kind."
":5 And these lesser men Man did cast into the void. And some were burned; and some were put apart from their kind."
":6 And Man became the God that he had created and with his miracles did rule over all the earth."
":7 But as all these things did come to pass, the Spirit that did cause man to create his God lived on within all men: even within Aqualung."
":8 And man saw it not."
":9 But for Christ's sake he'd better start looking."
"I may make you feel but I can't make you thinkYour sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink."
"When I was married, my wife suggested I write a song about her. So I wrote 'She's Got Balls' and then she divorced me!"
"My new schoolmates threatened to kick the shit out of me when they heard my Scottish accent. I had one week to learn to speak like them if I wanted to remain intact. Course, I didn't take any notice. No-one railroads me, and it made me all the more determined to speak my own way. That's how I got my name, you know. The Bonny Scot, see?"
"Angus? I think he's kinda crazy. Since the first night I saw the band way back in Australia, I knew their manager, and I'd never seen the band before and never even heard of AC/DC. And the manager just said stand here, the band comes on in two minutes. So I stood there and this band comes on and there's this little guy, about that big, with a school uniform and a bag on his back going crazy and I laughed, and I must have laughed for half an hour. And I still laugh, and I think he's great."
"Malcolm? He's the brain [of the band]."
"No matter how long you play rock and roll, songs might change just as long as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us"
"What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?"
"I can't even say the word, it's too early in the day to get upset."
"It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you."
"I've never had a message for someone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number."
"I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll."
"I don't give a fuck what else on the rider, as long I've got Jack Daniels."
"Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart."
"It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public."
"We've got so many ideas for songs and good riffs, and the more we work, the more we tour, we're getting more ideas, just more. It's just gonna get better and better. I can't see an end to it. It's like infinity rock and roll."
"Bon was the biggest single influence on the band. When he came in it pulled us all together. He had that real stick-it-to-'em attitude. We all had it in us, but it took Bon to bring it out."
"Often he would trail off with fans who came backstage after a show and go off with them to a party or something. He judged people as they were and if they invited him and he was in the right mood to go, he went. We used to call him 'Bon the Likeable'."
"We could be somewhere where you would never expect anyone to know him and someone would walk up and say "Bon Scott!" and always have a bottle of beer for him."
"He made a lot of friends everywhere and was always in contact with them too. Weeks before Christmas he would have piles of cards and he always wrote to anyone that he knew, keeping them informed. Even his enemies I think."
"A metaphor for seeing God's signature in the world."
"I recorded "…Moon" on my own with a drum machine, then brought musicians in as they were needed. It's about a person who has a spectacular, meteor-like rise, but burns out or dies young. Though the song ain't about him, the nearest equivalent would be Hendrix. Adding a list of all the things the hero/heroine saw raised the emotional temperature. The final chorus now had an extra fatefulness. To express this I inserted "you came like a comet, blazing your trail", then a "comet", a firework sample from a BBC sound effects record. That sweetly collided with Anthony's sax solo, so that it sounds as if the sax erupts from the comet itself. Magic like that just happens. … The Beatles' "Penny Lane" influenced the trumpet break — the sudden injection of super-fresh, bright and clear horns, a sound of optimism and clarity. Bowie's "Fame" inspired the final descending vocal, thought up and sung by Karl. I wanted the whole thing to sound like a carnival."
"She is everywhere and noplace Like a breath or like a wind she moves among men They would seek to hold her as a prize But she is in the shadows, the ocean and the sand She is everywhere and noplace, Her church not made with handsUncontained by man."
"I have heard the big music and I'll never be the same something so pure just called my name."
"I have drowned in the big sea now I find I'm still alive And I'm coming up forever shadows all behind me ecstacy to come"
"Come with me on a journey beneath the skin We will look together for the Pan within."
"The stars are alive and nights like these were born to be sanctified by you and me."
"Once you were tethered now you are free That was the river this is the sea."
"You're trying to make sense of something that you just don't see You're trying to make sense now and you know you once held the key But that was the river this is the sea."
"I pictured a rainbow you held it in your hands I had flashes but you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon."
"I was grounded while you filled the skies I was dumbfounded by truth you cut through lies I saw the lone empty valley you saw Brigadoon I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon"
"I spoke about wings you just flew I wondered I guessed and I tried you just knew I sighed but you swooned I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon"
"Flags, rags, ferryboats, scimitars and scarves every precious dream and vision underneath the stars You climbed on the ladder with the wind in your sails you came like a comet blazing your trail too high, too far, too soon You saw the whole of the moon!"
"How long will I love you? As long as stars are above you And longer if I can"
"How long will I want you? As long as you want me to And longer by far"
"He's like a man you'd meet any place until you recognize that ancient Face The Great God Pan is alive!"
"At sea on a ship in a thunderstorm on the very night the Christ was born a sailor heard from overhead a mighty voice cry "Pan is Dead!" So follow Christ as best you can Pan is dead — Long live Pan!"
"Some say the Gods are just a myth but guess Who I've been dancing with... The Great God Pan is alive!"
"I dreamed about Jimi Hendrix he came back for one day was born weepin' out of an egg the mid-wife said and straight away began to pray with lifted head"
"He was young and black and beautiful big eyed, perfect skin an' he played my guitar like a lightning storm like twirlin' feathers in the wind he could make it sound like the end of the world a fire, the flick of a knife he could squeeze it slow and masterful like the hand that brought the world to life"
"He made all Manhattan shake and every street and sidewalk quake his stratocaster caused the mighty Empire State to vibrate"
"/p>He did a forty-two minute cosmic rise in future shocks Star Spangled Banner in the back of CBGB's He stopped every clock in New York state and every heart that heard him and time itself was beaten and confused and fell lamb-like under the spell of his fabulous flashing fingers He played an encore at the Bitter End a heartburst Little Wing even the waiters cried and then we fell outside and in the dusty dawn of Bleeker street a sweet rain fell and Jimi died."
"This light is for the world. Send out from this wooden frame a beacon made of holy flame like a bridge across the morning sky from candle to the hills of high this light is for the world."
"This light is for the world send it out with sword of fire, with cymbal, drum and angel choir, music in the heart of it proclaiming that the lamp is lit this light is for the world."
"I'm gonna look twice at you until I see the Christ in youwhen I'm lookin through the eyes of love.."
"every breath is yours, beloved every breath is yours"
"Ain't no words for the things I'm feeling ain't no tongue can tell no name for the song my soul's revealing and all is very well…"
"Seek the light find the light feel the light be the light."
"I've lived here before in days of old I recognise these buildings in my soul I know each winding road and every rise is friendly and familiar to my eyes"
"I can feel it in my blood that I belong to this strange and stony rock I stand upon yet I cannot put a name upon it I cannot place the time nor see the land as it once was nor tell which house was mine no I cannot put a name upon it which was where and when yet here I am a perfect stranger home again."
"There's confusion in my head as I depart but a singing, ringing, soaring in my heart for beyond all time and space and doubt I know I've lived here before long ago."
"I feel you move me in such sweet silence always dancing, always dancing never ever getting tired"
"You are an eternal being of love you are the light of the world."
"I sacrifice my power on the altar of your love that it may be born again on another world. Come friend, let us climb the winding flights of stairs through the narrow door into the chamber bare a single candle burns as we seat ourselves words take form in our minds and repeat themselves : "My beloved and I are one…""
"If high stream of dreams and truth be told and our intentions be entwined then from these high flung tower walls let healing grace and blessings fall over all this cracked and broken land from northern crag to southern down from Universal Hall to Camden town from city square to village green from parliament to housing scheme from Iona to the the Hill of Dreams I sacrifice my power on the altar of your love that it may be born again on another world."
"There’s a day to ride thumb on a thunderhead There’s a day to make fantasy real There’s a day to deny and a day to decry and a day for the man with the wind at his heels!"
"I like communicating. I think it’s as simple as that. I get really lonely and dark if I can’t communicate with people."
"I have done. Well, I've shared a moving vehicle with 18 naked men — not many women do that... fantastic, never felt better."
"I'm a sucker for tragedy - I love the death scenes."
"Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don’t stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me. I see very little in our culture, actually, of women necessarily standing up for one another. I think there’s still an underlying fear if one woman has the light shone upon her, it takes away from your light, which of course is not the case at all. But I think when you’re young, you maybe fear that."
"“I’ve seen things like this before,” the woman medic said. “Awed whispers, peaceful expressions when there shouldn’t be one, and almost always a song. Once I even thought I heard the tune. Makes you wonder what’s out there.”"
"Keith seems to be able to see and hear angels from time to time."
"I hardly think an angel would walk around like a homeless person in the middle of New York."
"“…to know Keith is to love him. A lot of people seem to be especially disturbed by him, although I’ve never understood why. Does he make you uncomfortable?” There was no hint of judgment in her question, just curiosity."
"“Perhaps Keith is exactly the way God intended him to be.”"
"“I’m sure that if he really does see angels, they are sent to him for a specific purpose that is beyond our understanding. And if someone else—say, you, for example—were to see or hear angels, it might be for an altogether different purpose.”"
"“The lamp’s not shining.” He pointed at the glow on the wall. “That’s the angel. He’s blinking the lamp.”"
"If only everyone could see, they would realize that the one they thought weak, was actually the strongest one among them."
"“Tearing out the old, icky stuff is hard, it’s messy—ouch!” He dropped the hammer from his right hand and shook his left. “Ouch!” He danced around for a minute before regaining his composure, picking up the hammer and nail again, then looked at her straight-faced. “And at times it’s downright painful. But you’ve got to be willing to go through the process if you really want to see a true change. Anything less is just a cover-up.”"
"“‘Don’t forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.’ It’s from the Bible. Maybe your friend’s an angel too. I hope you were nice to him.”"
"“That’s why God sends His angels to me and you, maybe. So we won’t be sad anymore.”"
"That’s where faith comes in. You trust that Someone bigger than you can handle it, and you learn that it’s okay to accept help every now and then instead of always giving it."
""I think it’s time I started believing in something.”"
"Well I don't know why I came here tonight. I got the feeling that something ain't right. I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair, And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs. Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you."
"Windin' your way down on Baker Street, Light in your head and dead on your feet. Well another crazy day, You'll drink the night away And forget about everything. This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul. And it's taking you so long To find out you were wrong, When you thought it had everything."
"But you know he'll always keep movin'; You know he's never gonna stop movin. Cus he's rollin', He's the rollin' stone.And when you wake up it's a new mornin'. The sun is shinin' it's a new morning. You're goin', You're goin' home."
"You know I need your love, you got that hold over me. As long as I got your love, you know that I'll never leave. When I wanted you to share my life, I had no doubt in my mind. And it's been you, woman, right down the line."
"You still got that light in your eye, And our day is comin’ by and by. I’m travellin’ this long road here with you; We still gotta long way, we still gotta long way to go."
"Night comes down and finds you alone In a space and time of your own, Lost in dreams in a world full of shadows.Down the street the neon light shines, Offering refuge and hope to the blind, Who stumble in with no thought of tomorrow.Yes I get lonely when the sun gets low, And I end up looking for some winner goal. Yes I should know better but I can't say no."
"Out on the street I was talkin' to a man. He said "there's so much of this life of mine that I don't understand." You shouldn't worry I said, that ain't no crime. 'Cause if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time, next time."
"Historically, the image of women in pop music has been so totally ornamental - sexual, but predictably so. It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years. Certainly, if you look at the pop charts as a measuring stick, you'd think it hasn't come far at all. But women do feel less like victims now than they did twenty years ago. At heart I'm a feminist, but I'm also a feminist for men. Men should be liberated from the roles that are foisted on them also."
"I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can."
"We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item."
"I may be mad I may be blind I may be viciously unkind But I can still read what you're thinking. And I've heard it said too many times That you'd be better off Besides, why can't you see this boat is sinking?"
"And If you're trying to cut me down You know that I might bleed 'Cause if you're trying to cut me down I know that you'll succeed And if you want to hurt me There's nothing left to fear 'Cause if you want to hurt me You're doing really well my dear"
"Music gave me an identity."
"I definitely feel, as a woman at a certain age, if you don’t fit into a certain box, it becomes hard for everybody else."
"The easiest thing is to start blaming the company – they didn’t let me do what I wanted – but often enough, we stop ourselves because it is scary to take a risk."
"You have to be a citizen of the world."
"Coming out this year taught me that you have to be yourself. I’m lucky to live in a place where I can announce my relationship with a woman."
"Everybody is spiritual."
"Cutting my hair was probably the starting point of embracing myself. We try to control the natural things about ourselves because we’ve been told to be something else. Every part of my life now is authentic and it feels so refreshing."