The KLF

“This is Radio Freedom”

3d

“We’re all fucked. We’re all fucked. Wouldn’t it be nice if these utopian tech companies could save us? But that’s not likely to happen, so we’re all fucked.”

Trent Reznor

 “I want to do something that matters” / “I realised that I was afraid to really really try at something because I had never reached true failure”

Public Image Limited

“You never listen to word that I said/ You only seen me For the clothes that I wear”

Bjork

“It takes a long time to fully become who you are”

Henry Rollins

“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

“We don’t know where to stop/ I try and I try but I can’t get enough”

MIA

“Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that’s easy, then you’re doing the wrong thing”

Goldie

“Inner city life, inner city pressure”

Bill Drummond

“I was learning to see and not just look”

The Dandy Warhols

“A long time ago we used to be friends”

Tears For Fears

“I wanted to be with you alone, and talk about the weather”

Nick Cave

“All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle”

Thom Yorke

“What the hell am I doing here?”

Sinead O’Connor

“Maybe it was mean, but i really don’t think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.”

Lou Reed

“Psychologically, it’s better that I think i’m dirt”

Madonna

“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.”

The Jesus and Mary Chain

“Don’t shake those hips/ don’t bite those lips”

Pete Townsend

“You are here”

Tricky

“They used to call me Tricky Kid, I live the life they wish they did, I live the life, don’t own a car, Now they call me superstar”

Father John Misty

“People are so boring/ but you’re something else completely”

Stone Temple Pilots

“Sing the song or keep it inside”

Childish Gambino

“All I see is zombies walking all around us/ you can hear them/ you can hear them breathing/ Breathing down your spine”

David Bowie

“Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere”

Brian Wilson

“I’m just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood – but not very often.”

Roger Waters

“We need to start chipping away at the idea that somehow socialism lost and capitalism won, and the free market is the answer to everything and everything will work itself out and everybody will live happily ever after. No, it won’t”

Bob Dylan

“I’ve never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they’re never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.”

Paul Westerberg

“Stick with your heart and you’ll be fine”

Kevin Rowland

“Pure. This must be. It has to be”

Karl Hyde

“I need sugar”

1975

“You say I’m such a cliche”

Axl Rose

“I’m much too young to let love break my heart”

Rage against the Machine

“Your anger is a gift”

The Prodigy

“If I was in world war 2, they’d call me spitfire”

The Clash

“You ain’t alive and kicking unless you’re fighting.”

R.E.M

“I read bad poetry into your machine / I save your messages just to hear your voice / You always listen carefully to awkward rhymes / You always say your name like I wouldn’t know it’s you”

David Byrne

“And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, and you may ask yourself how did i get here?”

Prince

“When you wake up, each day looks the same, so each day should be a new beginning”

Kanye

“Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go”

John Lydon

“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated!?”

Serj Tankien

“Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive”

Kim Gordon

“Everything people call fabulous or amazing lasts for about ten minutes before the culture moves on to the next thing”

Duran Duran

“Stay wilder than the wind”

Johnny Cash

“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”

Nina Simone

“Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere”

Elvis

“Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.”

Dusty Springfield

“Be miserable or become someone else”

Jerry Lee Lewis

“Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth”

Bruce

“Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true Or is it something worse?”

Jesse Malin

“She liked Tom Waits and the poet’s hat
Sixties Kinks and Kerouac”

Frankie Valli

“Carried your books from school, playing make believe you were married to me”

Underworld

“Going back to Romford, hi Mum, are you having fun?”

Pet Shop Boys

“Girls, boys, art, pleasure”

Johnny Marr

“I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it’s never really been about the money”

Richard Ashcroft

“If this world hasn’t made you semi-mad then you ain’t living in it.”

Parliament

“Put a glide in your stride, a dip in yo’ hip and come on up to the mothership”

Tame Impala 

“I dont’ need what I’m holding on to”

Flaming lips

“All we have is now”

Daft Punk

“Everybody will be dancing tonight.”

Julian Cassablancas

“Desire is individual. Happiness is common”

The Cure

“Sometimes you make me feel like I’m living at the edge of the world”

Dennis Wilson

“If every word I said could make you laugh, I’d talk forever”

Interpol

“The trouble is that you’re in love with someone else. It should be me.”

J Spaceman

“All I want in life’s a little bit of love to take the pain away”

James Brown

“Get up offa that thing and dance til you feel better”

Mark Lanegan

“There’s just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.”

Rza

“The way you have to think in chess is good for everyday thinking, really, especially for brothers in the urban community who never take that second look, never take that second thought.”

Gil Scott Heron

“The revolution will be no re-run brothers,The revolution will be live”

Richard Hawley

“Don’t stare at the sun too long”

Marilyn Manson

“A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do”

Marvin Gaye

“I sing about life”

Alan Hull

“Run for home, run as fast, as I can”

Bee Gee’s

“Well now, I get low and I get high, And if I can’t get either, I really try”/ “Life’s going nowhere, somebody help me”

Cat Stevens

“I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.”

Stevie Wonder

“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision”

Crosby, Stills and Nash

“In the mornin’ when you rise/ Do you think of me and how you left me cryin’?/ Are you thinkin’ of telephones, and managers,/ And where you got to be at noon?/ You are living a reality I left years ago/ It quite nearly killed me.”

Viv Albertine

“I think of it as saying Yes to Nothing. If your choice is either the wrong thing or nothing, however frightened you are, you’ve got to take nothing. Haven’t you? Hasn’t everyone? No husband, no lover, no band, no money, no confidence. Here goes nothing.”

The New York Dolls

“As I was lyin in a hospital bed, A rock n roll nurse went into my head”

Elton

“I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.”

Kathleen Hanna

“I’m on a steady diet of really being here”

MC5

“Kick out the jams motherfuckers”

Bootsy Collins

“Nowadays, it’s like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn’t have to think about it, the road and recording”

Ramones

“There’s nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be.”

Chris Issak

“I never dreamed that I’d meet somebody like you. And I never dreamed that I’d lose somebody like you.”

The Runaways

“With a pinch of rock and a dose of roll, I can warm you up if you get too cold”

Depeche Mode

“Strangelove, Strange highs and strange lows, Strangelove, That’s how my love goes, Strangelove, Will you give it to me, Will you take the pain, I will give to you, Again and again, And will you return it”

The Bangles

“All the school kids so sick of books, they like the punk”

The Byrds

“All I really wanna do, is baby be friends with you”

The Stooges

“I’m the world’s forgotten boy, The one who’s searchin’, searchin’ to destroy”

Michael Hutchence

“Well life ain’t no joke, But it’s good when you smile”

Jane’s addiction

“I’m gonna kick tomorrow”

Primal Scream

“Regrets? Who cares?”

Gram Parsons

“Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues”

PJ Harvey

“Well, I don’t really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.”

My Bloody Valentine

“It’s just pure noise for the hell of it”

The GoGo’s

“It doesn’t matter what they say, In the jealous games people play, Our lips are sealed”

Curtis Mayfield

“Educated fools; from uneducated schools”

ac/dc

“Living easy, livin’ free, season ticket on a one way ride”

New Order

“My life ain’t no holiday/ I’ve been through the point of no return”

At the Drive in

“Send transmission from the one armed scissor; cut away, cut away”

Nas

“It’s the end ’cause the game’s tired / it’s the same vibe Good Times had / right after James died / that’s why the gangsta rhymers ain’t inspired / heinous crimes help record sales / more than creative lines”

The Specials

“The businessmen are having fun … I’ve lost touch with reality, they all seem so absurd to me”

Beck

“You’re just the girl of my dreams, But it seems my dreams never come true”