All Quotes

"In May 1922, Dada staged its own funeral. According to Hans Richter, the main part of this took place in Weimar, where the Dadaists attended a festival of the German w:Bauhaus art school, during which Tzara proclaimed the elusive nature of his art: 'Dada is useless, like everything else in life... Dada is a virgin microbe which penetrates with the insistence of air into all those spaces that reason has failed to fill with words and conventions.'"

"Tzara would draw slips of paper with words described on them from a hat, and present the resulting combination of words as a poem. [Hans] Arp allowed cut-outs of free or geometric shapes to arrange themselves in a random order, then pasted them on a surface and presented the result as a picture."

"We chase misprinted lies/We face the path of time/And yet I fight/And yet I fight/This battle all alone/No one to cry to/No place to call home"

"Why you act crazy/Not an act maybe/So close a lady/Shifty eyes shady"

"Why you act frightened/I am enlightened/Your weakness builds me/So someday you'll see"

"It's alright/There comes a time/Got no patience to search/For peace of mind/Layin' low/Want to take it slow/No more hiding or/Disguising truths I've sold"

"Everyday it's something/Hits me all so cold/Find me sittin' by myself/No excuses, then I know"

"It's okay/Had a bad day/Hands are bruised from/Breaking rocks all day/Drained and blue/I bleed for you/You think it's funny, well/You're drowning in it too"

"Yeah, it's fine/We'll walk down the line/Leave our rain, a cold/Trade for warm sunshine/You my friend/I will defend/And if we change, well I love you anyway"

"Hey, I ain't never coming home/Hey, I'll just wander my own road/Hey-hey, I can't meet you here tomorrow - no, no/Say goodbye don't follow/Misery so hollow"

"Well I forgot my woman, lost my friends/Things I've done and where I've been/Sleep in sweat - the mirror's cold/Seen my face? It's growin' old/Scared to death, no reason why/Do whatever to get me by/Think about the things I've said/Read the page its cold and dead"

"Come the morning light/It's a see-through show/What you may have heard and/What you think you know"

"Be what you wanna be/See what you came to see/Been what you wanna be/I don't like what I see"

"Like the coldest winter will/Heaven beside you... Hell within/And you think you have it still, heaven inside you"

"Hey, let them do it again, yeah/Hey, you said you were my friend/Hey, turn me upside down, Oh/Hey, feelin' so down"

"You know its been on my mind/Could you stand right there/Look me straight in the eye and say/That it's over now"

"So I found myself in the sun, oh yeah/A hell of a place to end a run, oh yeah/California, I'm fine/Somebody check my brain/California's all right/Somebody check my brain"

"I walk these streets, I creep and I fall, oh yeah/When she sang I answered the call, oh yeah"

"Time to change has come and gone/Watched your fears become your god/It's your decision"

"You feed the fire that burned us all/When you lie/To feel the pain that spurs you on/Black inside"

"Hear footsteps creak the floor/The shadows give away/Someone outside the door/Won't let 'em in"

"These things I hate in you/Also reflect it seems/Distortion laced with spite/Takes you out of me"

"A looking in view too long on the outside/Desperate plans make sense in a low life/Lie/A looking in view too long on the outside/Desperate plans make sense in a low life/Lie/It's why you never tell me/Whatever's on your mind"

"Just another lesson learned/Wear a scar, abhore repeating/Take a simple fateful turn/Opened up to stop the bleeding"

"Nowhere to buy in/Most of us hiding/Others are shining"

"Give away a love/And then remove another, too/Painted words adorn the walls/Echoing untrue/I feel cold"

"I excuse myself/I'm used to my little cell/I amuse myself/In my very own private hell"

"I don't wanna feel no more/It's easier to keep falling/Imitations are pale/Emptiness of tomorrows/Haunted by your ghost"

"Lay down, black gives way to blue/Lay down, I'll remember you"

"Hollow as a mountain/All tunneled and drilled below/Hollow as a mountain/Crowned with a cold, blue sky"

"Silence! So loud! Silence!/I can't tell my up from down"

"What makes you want to carve your initials in me?"

"Find me distant/Outwardly rough/Obscene"

"Cold/Dry/Stone"

"Every time I listen/Voices in my head/Everybody listen/Does yours say what mine says"

"Calling out their names/Faces, uniforms I've worn/And all that is gone/Always climbing/To fall down again"

"...this ain't over/My regrets are many, true/Still so much worse lies ahead for you"

"Gonna wear you like a second skin/I'll haunt you like a phantom limb"

"The devil put dinosaurs here/Jesus don't like a queer/The devil put dinosaurs here/No problem with faith just fear"

"Tell me, does it matter/If I'm still here, or I'm gone?/Shifting to the after/An impostor, so disowned"

"Are you surprised black water flows/From wells run dry?/I'm not the one you know"

"So far under/Far I've never fell/Now forever dwell/So far under"

"So far under/Too much pain to tell/And now I'm ripped asunder/"So far under"

"My inner voice/Seems to want me dead/Only choice/Manage down the trail I’ve lead"

"Never far away away I always see you/When it all goes dark you light my way through"

"Friends Don't Let Friends Get Friends Haircuts" - This was written on Mike Inez's bass during the band's set on Unplugged. It was in reference to the members of Metallica, who were sitting in the audience. Metallica had recently gotten haircuts to coincide with the release of their album Load and many saw this as the band "selling out."

"Then M. Ravel discussed another idea. That was that in these days of cacophony it might be quite an original idea for the orchestra to start, say, in C major, and then, through a series of discords the instruments should divide, some going up a semitone at every three or four bars, while others went down in the same way, eventually ending in perfect harmony in C major two octaves apart. He said: 'It is just an idea but it might be rather fun working it out and certainly a novel way of resolving harmony from discord.'"

"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"

"I have the intention to dedicate Le Gibet to you. It is not because I think you merit a rope to hang yourself, but because it is the least difficult of the three pieces."

"In the passage quoted here from Monteverdi's madrigal [Cruda amarilli, mm.9-19 and 24-30], one sees a tonality determined by the characteristic of the accord parfait on the tonic, by the sixth chord assigned to the third and seventh degrees, by the optional choice of the accord parfait or the sixth chord on the sixth degree, and finally, by the accord parfait, and above all, by the unprepared seventh chord (with major third) on the dominant."