December 2011
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Madmen throw their voices
From pretty boys
And from the best ones
You pick up...
– Rickie Lee Jones, Traces of the Western Slopes
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I love her madly in my own way - you’ll gather that our relationship...
– Tom Waits on Rickie Lee Jones
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everything it seems i like is
a little bit stronger
a little bit thicker
a...
– Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
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You got your dark side, and it terrifies you, it frightens you. It scares you...
– Homicide: Life on the Street
Three Men and Adena
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And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think...
– Leonard Cohen, Suzanne
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Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful...
– Nancy Sinatra
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You stay alive, baby. Do it for Van Gogh.
– Frank Booth
Blue Velvet, 1986
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Oscar Wilde: Do you mind if I smoke?
Sarah Bernhardt: I don’t care if you burn.
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You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognize it, how to control...
– Helen Frankenthaler
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Sometimes I think it’s the most successful love affair either of us will ever...
– Fred Armisen on his platonic friendship with Carrie Brownstein
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I fell in love with music before I fell in love with people.
– Exene Cervenka
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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the...
– Mark Twain
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How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass:
Everyone does this...
– Peg Bracken
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If I had this voice, you could all kiss my ass.
– David Letterman after watching Ed perform
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Somebody throw up a gun so I can shoot you all. Fuckers. I meant that with love,...
– Eddie Vedder
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I was sitting at home one day and the phone rang and a polite young man said...
– Howard Zinn
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It’s the media. They never report the good things that the Ku Klux Klan does.
– From “Why Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters Didn’t Hurt Him in Texas” over at The Atlantic. This quote comes from a voter in Texas’ 14th congressional district, in a 1996 focus group. We don’t even. (via motherjones)
Mother Jones don’t even. I can’t even. Any sane person with two brain...
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Eddie walked up and stood in line behind me and my bandmate. He introduced...
– Carrie Brownstein
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I take my orders from Sean.
– Eddie Vedder
Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles 4/13/08
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The good songs ain’t ten yards offshore.
– Eddie Vedder
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
– Stephen Sondheim
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When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway...
– Shane McGowan & Jem Finer, Fairytale of New York