"After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober." - Martha Reeves, born this day in 1941.
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"I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the high school guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind." - Chrissie Hynde
"If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not." - Grace Slick
"As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion." - Juliana Hatfield
"Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen." - Lydia Lunch
I had tickets to see Bikini Kill in 2020. Then I had tickets to see Bikini Kill in 2021. Now I have tickets to see Bikini Kill in 2022. Apparently Bikini Kill has much more confidence in my ability to stay alive than I do.
"I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right." - Marvin Gaye
Send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
"After I saw Jimi [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the fuck I was going to do with my life." - Jeff Beck
"I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird." - Paul McCartney, born this day in 1942.
"You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail." - Charlie Parker
"I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert." - Joe Cocker
"Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way." - Pete Townshend
"When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album." - Mark Mothersbaugh
"The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real." - Robert Fripp
"If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great." - Brian Eno
"I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it." - Ian Astbury
"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." - Stevie Wonder, born this day in 1950.
"Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.” - Henry Rollins
"Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life." - Patti LaBelle -
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