Mumford & Sons "Roll away your stone"

• And you, you've gone too far this time You have neither reason nor rhyme With which to take this soul that is so rightfully mine

Mumford & Sons "Thistle and Weeds"

• Spare me your judgments and spare me your dreams Cause recently mine have been tearing my seams

Mumford & Sons "Winter Winds"

• You'll be happy and wholesome again When the city clears and sun ascends

The Streets "Turn the Page"

• I'll show you the secrets the sky and the birds Actions speak louder than words Stand by me my apprentice Be brave, clench fists.

Arabian Saying

• The soul travels at the speed of a trotting camel.

Admiral Fallow "Old Ballons"

• cause sometimes it’s like trying to breathe through a pillow,trying to dance on the tightrope in the pouring rain. sometimes it’s like you’re treading on egg-shells, trying to floss up your top-set with a rusty chain. it’s all because of you.

Morrissey "Everyday is like Sunday"

• Armageddon - come Armageddon! Come, Armageddon! Come! Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey

Sonic Youth "Sunday"

• Sunday comes and Sunday goes Sunday always seems to move so slow To me - and here she comes again A perfect ending to a perfect day A perfect ending what can I say To you - lonely Sunday friend With you - Sunday never ends

The Gaslight Anthem "The 59 Sound"

• But I still know the song and the words and the name and the reasons
• I wonder which song they're gonna play when we go, I hope it's something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow

Bromheads Jacket "Fight Music for the Fight"

• In the back of his mind he could have been A prize fighter like Muhammad Ali Or maybe Prince Nazeem

Bon Iver "Song for a Lover of long ago"

• Rain on the bar / Clinging water mars / Any hints of what I had / Because of what I became // Rain you are me / shake the memory free / can't squelch the molten soul / cant chase away the hole // I have buried you / Every place I've been / You keep ending up / In my shaking hands // Rain, sound the alarm / The sting my broken arm / The faintest violinist buried in my gut / There are chances and choices sometimes you just have to cut // I have buried you / Every place I've been / You keep ending up In my shaking hands // I have buried you / Every place I've been / You keep ending up / Every place I am I have buried you / Every place I've been / You keep ending up / In my shaking hands / You keep ending up / Every place I've been /In my shaking hands / Every place I am

Motorpsyco "Big Surprise"

• the quirks along the way are what you learn from anyway

Vampire Weekend "Mansard Roof"

• I see a salty message written in the eaves

The Rosebuds "Let us go"

• You call yourself / (Happy) / But I'm all worn out / (Just let us go now) / Come on out back / (But baby, it's wet out here) / and I can't relax / (let us go) / The crowd has left / (Far from home lovers) / And they heard our hearts / (Were they in time?) / Now we'll drive all night / (No questions for miles) / And miles, I swear / And we are calm, and I promise from now on / We'll leave this town alone / And I have a furnace in my chest / It'll burn to get us home in time for fall / 'Cause we're all worn out / (Beautiful summer) / And we'll drive all night / (We have a plan now) / So just relax / (No questions for miles) / And miles, I swear / Let us go

The Postal Service "Brand new Colony"

• I'll be the phonograph that plays your favorite albums back as you're lying there, drifting off to sleep... drifting off to sleep...

Jónsi "Boy Lilikoi"

• use your eyes / the world goes and flutters by

The Strokes "Is this it"

• Can’t you see I’m tired? I don’t even like it, I just lied to Get to your apartment, now I’m staying There just for a while, I can’t think ‘cause I’m just way too tired

Jurassic 5 "Quality Control"

• You got to get up on your vocab, you gots to have vocab/Letters make words and sentences make paragraphs.

The Gaslight Anthem "American Slang"

• Look what you started, / I seem to be coming out of my skin. / Look what you've forgotten here. / The bandages just don't keep me in. / and when it was over, I woke up alone. // and they cut me to ribbons and taught me to drive. / I got your name tattooed inside of my arm. / I called for my father but my father had died. / while you told me fortunes, in American Slang. // Look at the damage, / the fortunes came for the richer men. / while we're left with gallows, / waiting for us liars to come down and hang. / and here's where we died that time last year, / and here's where the angels and devils meet. / and you can dance with the queen if you need, / and she will always keep your cards close to her heart. / before they tear you apart.

Velvet Underground "Rock and Roll"

• But one fine morning, she hears a New York station, She doesn`t believe what she heard at all - hey, not at all. She started dancin` to that fine, fine music, You know her life was saved by rock and roll - yes, rock and roll.

The Magnetic Fields "It's only Time"

• Years falling / like grains of sand / mean nothing to me. / It's only time. / It's only time.

Sonic Youth "Sunday"

• Sunday comes alone again / A perfect day for a quiet friend / And you - you will set it free

Langhorne Slim "Colette"

• All I wanted was a good song and a fair friend / You came along just then / You gave me crazy love And you whispered / you've got a bottle and nobody that you're missing / I wasn't much of a fighter or a lover / You said don't get excited but take cover / We stepped into the light / Took pictures of each other / Some were in black and white / The others were in color

The Decemberists "Engine Driver"

• And if you don’t love me let me go // And if you don’t love me let me go

Frightened Rabbit "Footshooter"

• and if i shoot at you, you should shoot at me too // and we can drown in pools of the thick dark words we threw // and as my face turns white // i apologise, i am sorry, it’s not your fault. it’s mine.

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

• What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don’t know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they’ve been listening to the sad songs longer than they’ve been living the unhappy lives.

• You can see this everywhere you go: young, middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars. ‘Look at me! I’m not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!’ Tragic. I’m glad I learned to stay home and sulk.

Dr. Dog "Shadow People"

• The streets are swimming with the sharks / It’s the right night for the wrong company / And there ain’t nothing ’round here to look at
• Sure, I’m going to die young, but I will also die awesome.

Chuck Klosterman

• It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.
• Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

Charles Bukowski "The Bluebird"

• there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out

Edgar Watson Howe

• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet XVII

• I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul

Jack Kerouac "On the Road"

• “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”

Jack Kerouac

• maybe that's what life is ... a wink of the eye and winking stars
• don't drink to get drunk. drink to enjoy life
• keep on rolling under the stars
• first thought, best thought
• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• you always look so cool

Ginsberg, Howl II.

• Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!

the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

E.A. Poe

• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Dr. Carl Sagan

• In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

J.D. Salinger

• Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them—if you want to. Just as some day, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.

Kramer (Seinfeld)

• And let’s face it. Without rules, there’s chaos.

Gary Snyder

• “Ah to be alive on a mid-September morn”

The Mounatin Goats "This Year"

• I broke free on a saturday morning

I put the pedal to the floor headed north on mills avenue and listened to the engine roar

my broken house behind me and good things ahead a girl named cathey wants a little of my time six cylinders underneath the hood crashing and kicking aha! listen to the engine whine

i am going to make it through this year if it kills me i am going to make it though this year if it kills me

i played video games in a drunken haze i was seventeen years young hurt my knuckles punching the machines the taste of scotch rich on my tounge

and then cathey showed up and we hung out trading swigs from a bottle all bitter and clean locking eyes holding hands twin high matinence machines i am going to make it through this year if it kills me i am going to make it though this year if it kills me

i drove home in the califonia dusk i could feel the alcahol inside of me hum pictured the look on my stepfather's face ready for the bad things to come

i down shifted as i pulled into the driveway the motor screaming out stuck in second gear the scene ends badly as you might imagine in a cavalcade of anger and fear

there will be feasting and dancing in jurusalem next year

i am going to make it through this year if it kills me i am going to make it though this year if it kills me

Akron/Family

• Last year was a hard year for such a long time, this year's gonna be ours.

Oscar Wilde

• Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.

_-Albert Einstein__

• The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

David Foster Wallace

• Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion — these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

Tom Waits

• Champagne for your real friends, real pain for your sham friends.

Vic Chessnut 'Stay inside'

• How 'bout lets roll the rock away?

Langhorne Slim

• If you got worries, then you're like me.

Don't worry now, I won't hurt you. And, if you got worries, then you're like me. Don't worry now, I won't desert you.

If you get a chance, you put your dancing shoes on. The country's calling, and thats where I'm going. Don't know if you're in my way, but, I'll take you along. I'll take you along.

Maybe Blue eyes are more of my style, I don't know. But, I'm willing to try. And, maybe I'm dumb for making you smile, I don't know. But, I will in a while. We passed a gave yard and held our breath, We better kiss if we're getting closer to death.

I don't wanna miss ya, I know it's all in our heads, She says "It's all in our heads."

If you got worries, then you're like me. Don't worry now, I won't hurt you. And,if you got worries, then you're like me. Don't worry now, I won't desert you.

And, If you get a chance, you put your dancing shoes on. The country's calling, and that's where I'm going. Don't know if you're in my way, but, I'll take you along. I'll take you along.

You can have all the diamonds, You can have all the gold But someday you're still gonna get old You've got to learn to get happy, along the way. Take some chances, allow yourself to get lost You're beautiful baby, you're the boss. You've got to learn to get happy, along the way

There's no road to follow, only stones left unturned You must play with fire, in order to get burned

Toss your misery, out the door What are you waiting for? You've got to learn to get a little happy, along the way It's alright to change your style, it's alright to smile It's alright to get a little happy along the way

Tough day at the office, and worse, not at home Don't wanna talk about it, Just wanna be left alone There's no joy in living, You're giving all and getting none It's a new beginning, you thought you lost, but honey you won.

You can have all the diamonds, all the gold Someday we're still gonna get old, We've got to learn to get happy along the way

Get your hat Get your coat babe Leave your worries on the doorstep We've got to get a little happy along the way.

• my life is one big rock'n'roll fantasy

Garden State

• It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist

Jack Kerouac

• One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Undertones

• Teenage dreams are so hard to beat

Virginia Woolf

• What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time.

Italo Calvino

• Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful for me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.

Frank O'Hara _Christmas Card to Grace Hartigan_

• There's no holly, but there is

the glass and granite towers and the white stone lions and the pale violet clouds. And the great tree of balls in Rockefeller Plaza is public.

Christmas is green and general like all great works of the imagination, swelling from minute private sentiments in the desert, a wreath around our intimacy like children's voices in a park.

For red there is our blood which, like your smile, must be protected from spilling into generality by secret meanings, the lipstick of life hidden in a handbag against violations.

Christmas is the time of cold air and loud parties and big expense, but in our hearts flames flicker answeringly, as on old-fashioned trees. I would rather the house burn down than our flames go out.

Mark Twain

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things

that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

• “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”

Complete Works by D.H. Lawrence

• “Be still when you have nothing to say; when

genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.”

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

• “What holds the world together, as I have learned

from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”

The Lost Poems by Dorothy Parker

• “I require only three things of a man. He must be

handsome, ruthless and stupid.”

Kurt Vonnegut

• I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is
• Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
• Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
• There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.
• She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is doing.
• Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
• There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.
• "Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.
• That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
• Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
• All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
• Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon?
• So it goes.
• I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled 'science fiction' ever since, and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
• We must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Tom Waits

• My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. ‘Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?’ they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, ‘Look at me… I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you… you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.’ And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, ‘Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.’ So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.
• this has greatness written all over it.
• I don’t want to get infected with stupid.
• You’re from Palestine? How did you find the time to write….given all the trouble you are having with Israel? Good to hear from you, your sister has good taste, so do you. Allow me to formally encourage to write things down, so when you make it you can say, and I can say, I was in your corner all along. Thanks for all your kind words, always good to hear from the younger generation telling me I have value and relevance. Stay at it Colin. Lots of great people come from Illinois because it’s so flat you have to dream up everything, that’s what my wife says….she’s from there, & lots of Presidents are from Illinois. OK Colin go out there and take the world by the tail, pull it down, wrap it around and put it in your pocket.
• I don't know where home is but I'm on my way

Honore de Balzac

• … when a face has grown familiar it comes to possess a certain beauty …

Kingsley Amis

• If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital

• If blood is thicker than concrete/All is not lost

Ted Hughes And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.