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Anybody that walks can sing.
Love, love will be my strongest weapon
The only thing to fear is fearlessness.
Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries
We're kind of an international phenomenon.
Links have become the suburbs of the real world.
Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.
I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.
They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.
I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.
There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.
When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.
I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you.
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.
My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.
My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.
I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.
A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'
The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."
I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.
If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!
The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."
I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.
To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.
And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.
I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am.
Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.
I remember traffic jams Motor boys and girls with tans Nearly was and almost rans I remember this, this ... At the edge of the continent
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When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.
I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.
I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.
We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.
The song "Sing for the Submarine" presents my dream world, which is way different from my waking world. It's set in the future and it's post-apocalyptic.
Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.
For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.
Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.
The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'
I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.
I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.