- by musicians
- ''Now, at my lowest moments, I think of people who come to shows. I still get very sad and sometimes I feel like I have no friends, but when that happens now, I’ll think of people whose names or faces I don’t know— they’re my friends and they love me. I’ve got them. It really does save me. I still feel awkward, but that’s the one thing I can grab onto at my lowest points.'' - Fiona Apple.
- “I had a bunch of shit going on in my life, and this guy who was supposedly also a friend of mine saw me crying and looked at me and said, “God, you are so fucking weak." I think that’s the cruelest thing anyone’s ever said to me.” — Fiona Apple
- “The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can’t live your life and not hurt people. Pretty recently, I did something that I’m really not proud of, and it shocked me. I thought, “I’m a really fucking bad person." But I realized that something good came out of it because now I have to be a lot less judgmental of others. Everything can make you a more compassionate person if you use it that way.” — Fiona Apple
- ''If for one minute you think you're better than a sixteen year old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.'' ― Gerard Way
- ''Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.'' - Mark Hoppus
- "I’m just a fucking worrier. I worry constantly about everything and everyone, myself included. I have to be, like, reminded by my friends to calm down. My favorite people are people who take away my nervousness and anxieties. When you have friends like that it’s awesome, because it’s better than any Xanax or pill." - Conor Oberst
- “I think for me, my favorite experience is meeting a 15- or 16-year-old kid who comes to a show, and you can just tell they’re really sincere and they’re like, “Your music has meant so much to me and it got me through this difficult time, or kept me company through this part of my life.” — Conor Oberst
- “I think I’m sad sometimes. I think everybody’s sad sometimes, and just because of the music, they assume it’s just all the time. I think I just go through phases at times when I am able to socialize and do whatever with everybody and feel pretty good about the world, sometimes it feels like you just want to retreat. I think that’s common to a lot of other people.” - Conor Oberst
- “Even if it’s my least favourite Pavement song, I’ll still be so happy that they’re playing. There are certain points where bands become so intertwined with your idea of yourself and your history and your love of music itself, that they can kind of do whatever.” — Matt Berninger about Pavement (and really me about The National)
- “There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records do that for people, that’s the greatest compliment I could ever receive. That’s one of the reasons making music is so important to me, because there’s a very strange emotional reach. For me—more than books or movies or other things—music is like a mainline to your heart.” - Matt Berninger
- ''“For a long time, we tried to fight against the idea that we’re a sad, depressing band — and I’ve never thought of us that way — but it became clear that there’s no way we were ever going to prove otherwise. I think it has the opposite effect for most people who pay attention. Because singing about melodrama and sadness and depression and romance and social anxieties and whatever they are, have been my ways of embracing them and kind of making something fun out of them and helping me deal. The songs about that stuff, I find them to be very soothing and leave me feeling the opposite way, leave me feeling relieved. I think most people who pay attention to our band and have followed us don’t think of us as depressing and think of us as the opposite too. But on a cursory level, yes, our songs are not light pop songs.” - Matt Berninger
- actors/actresses
- ''Things that most people do naturally are often inexplicably difficult for me.'' - Tina Fey
- psychology
- ''Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate to others the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissable.'' - Carl Jung
- about feminism
- ''Accusations of male bashing and man hating work to discredit feminism because people often confuse men as individuals with men as a dominant and privileged category of people. Given the reality of women’s oppression, male privilege, and some men’s enforcement of both, it’s hardly surprising that every woman should have moments when she resents or even ''hates'' men.'' — Allan G. Johnson
- others
- “Don’t you dare Shrink yourself For someone else’s comfort- Do not become small For people who refuse to grow.” —m.v., Advice to my future daughter, #2.
may 21 2013 ∞
jun 30 2019 +