"Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage,
"In homosexual sex, you know exactly what the
"I've spent fifteen years of my life fighting for
"The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand
"This is a celebration of individual freedom,
"I have always been principally interested in men for sex.
"You can't type what a lesbian is. We're anything
"I became a lesbian because of women, because
"You're neither unnatural, nor abominable,
"Why should I paint dead fish, onions, and
"Are there many things in this cool-hearted
"I want to marry my partner of eight years.
"This is merely a health insurance issue…
"There is nothing mixed up about a woman who
"Love can not be categorized as homosexual,
"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals
"A person's sexuality is so much more than one
"If homosexuality is a sickness, let's all call in
"If you remove all homosexuals and homosexual influence
"It's odd how many people are prejudice about
"Hatred is a virus that shall live as long as it has
"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not."
"Unfortunately, the Constitution does not prevent Americans
"Don't let the people who live on fear and hate
"Greed begets hate, and hate is the foundation of all evil."
"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round,
"Religion is the masterpiece of animal training,
"I contend that we are both Atheists.
"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god
"This world is bullshit, and you shouldn't model
"Our society places a supreme value on control,
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
"As you may have noticed, my mind does not work
"No one is free when others are oppressed."
"I may disagree with what you have to say,
"Style is being yourself, but on purpose."
"…It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
"That which we are for strengthens us.
"To sin by silence when they should protest
"The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation
"I think the best way to be an activist is to live
"When freedom is outlawed then only the
"I make weapons out of my imperfections."--Tool
"A man without his honor is a man without his soul.
"I never thought I would want to become strong.
"I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear.
"When we hide our true selves from the ones we love,
"Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates,
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.
"There's a difference between sex and making love."
"When you love someone it is forever,
"Good friends are hard to find, even harder to leave,
"It isn't the burden of today that drives men mad.
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness!"--Aristotle
"The only people for me are the mad ones,
"Accepting reality is the first step to insanity."
"No matter how paranoid you are,
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm."
"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
"Depression is the deadliest poison of them all."
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
"If it's too loud, you're too old."
"Unfortunately, the Constitution does not prevent Americans
"We barely have time to react in this world,
"If the enemy opens the door, you must race in."--Sun Tzu
"In any given situation, there are more dumb
"I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not,
"To know that we know what we know,
"I fight fire with words.
"If I can survive, I can be somebody tomorrow."--Michelle Malone
"What lies behind us and what lies before us
"To different minds, the same world is a
"I'm the one who's gonna die when it comes time
"They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
"I was worrying about tonight, last night.
On Earthworms: "It may be doubted whether there are
"Earthworms must be considered as terrestrial animals…
"Worms are nocturnal in their habits,
"Worms do not posses any sense of hearing.
"They were indifferent to shouts, if care was taken
"Father has no proof sheets and has taken to training earthworms,
"This is a song about knowing your anger and
"I just had something on my mind and I just said it...
"It's psychologically and chemically impossible
"The way I feel about music-any song, any style-
"Except for Stefan's bass guitar, we're an acoustic band.
"There are so many different elements in our music.
"When I'm really into the music,
"We're very American, as Dave says.
"People want so badly to label this band,
"I have a few country tunes that I'd really like to sell.
On his country songs: "One day I'll do something with them,
"At first we thought that the most important thing was
On the name Collective Soul: "He read it in a book,
"You can spit shine me all you want,
"The whole concept of Yourself or Someone Like You
"The album is not depressing. It was meant to be a celebration
"I'm not one of those people who suffers for his art,
"I would hope it's the 'universalness' to the songs
"I would like to think everything is going so well
"I write about people who left me for good
"I used to do a lot of hitchhiking. I had my little
"If I have to have controversy, I want to hear that
"Critics don't like us because there's nothing for them
"Don't just hear it...feel it."--Kyle
"What does it take to be a superhero?
"We've just believed in out music enough that
"I have a tendency to write songs about people or myself
LES/BI/GAY RELATED QUOTES
"At my back I hear the word-'homosexual'-
and it seems to split my world in two…
It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another,
that creates this terrifying erotic chaos.
Information, a crumb of information,
seems to light the world."--John Cheever,
U.S. author. From John Cheever:
The Journals, "The Sixties," entry 1966.
but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice,
no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness;
we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function,
produced by a certain arrest of sexual development.
Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and
modern times have been homosexuals,
several of the greatest men among them
(Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.).
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as
a crime-and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me,
read the books of Havelock Ellis."--Sigmund Freud,
Austrian psychiatrist. From The Letters of
Sigmund Freud, 1961.
The letter was originally written on April 9, 1935,
to a woman requesting treatment for her son.
other person is feeling, so you are identifying with
the other person completely. In heterosexual sex,
you have no idea what the other person is feeling."--William
Burroughs, U.S. author. From With William Burroughs:
A Report from the Bunker, 1981.
our right to be free and make love whenever, wherever…
And you're telling me that all those years of what
being gay stood for is wrong…and I'm a murderer.
We have been so oppressed! Don't you remember how it was?
Can't you see how important it is for us to love openly,
without hiding and without guilt?"--Larry Kramer,
U.S. playwright. From The Normal Heart.
recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual.
It's all there-all throughout history we've been there;
but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it,
and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all
our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that,
and until we organize ourselves block by neighborhood
by city by state into a united visible community
that fights back, we're doomed."--Larry Kramer,
U.S. playwright. From The Normal Heart.
not of homosexuality. No government has the
right to tell its citizens when or whom to love.
The only queer people are those who don't
love anybody."--Rita Mae Brown, US
feminist writer. From opening of the
Gay Olympics in San Francisco.
I've always thought any sane woman would be
a lover of women because loving men is such a mess.
I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman.
Damn."--Germaine Greer, Australian feminist writer.
From New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1992.
and everything. The one thing in common is that
we make love to other women. So give up trying
to limit us."--Amanda Bearse: actor and television director
women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate."--Rita Mae Brown
nor mad; you're as much a part of what people
call nature as anyone else; only you're
unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche
in creation."--Radclyffe Hall in The Well of Loneliness, 1928
beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier."--Marie Laurencin: artist
world so utterly exquisite as the pure love
of one woman for another?"--Mary McLane
I think it's only fair. I'm a tax-paying individual.
I'm a law-abiding citizen. I've followed all the rules.
I don't see why I can't get the same financial breaks
that heterosexuals get. I don't want to go into your
church and do this--this is not a religious thing for me.
visitation in the hospital issue…to be flying
together overseas and not have to fill out two forms…
to look at a form that you fill out and when it says
'spouse,' being able to fill in the name of the person
who would fall into that category. Those are the things
that people don't realize and take for granted."--Melissa Etheridge
speaking in support of same-sex marriage (July of 1996).
loves women, who wants to have sex with them,
or who identifies as a lesbian. It is society that
is mixed up because it punishes people for not
conforming to its gender stereotypes."--Edward Stein
heterosexual, right or wrong. It is not what you
love, rather who you love that matters."
and three hundred sixty two to heterosexuals.
That doesn't mean God doesn't love heterosexuals.
It's just that they need more supervision." Lynn Lavner
word 'gay.' No one refers to anyone as just
'hetero' because that doesn't say anything.
Sexual identity is broader than a label."--Gus Van Sant,
U.S. filmmaker. From Sight and Sound (London, August 1992).
queer to work. 'Hello, can't work today, still queer…'"
from what is generally regarded as American culture,
you would pretty much be left with 'Let's Make a Deal.'" Fran Lebowitz
HATE AND MISUNDERSTANDING
"What we call human nature in actuality is human habit."--Jewel Kilcher
things that have no relevance to their lives."
something to feed on. After it consumes us all,
its fever will have nowhere to rage except in
the bodies of those who unleashed it on our world."
from making complete asses of themselves."--Oliver Wendell Holmes
govern how you live."--Melissa Etheridge
RELIGION
"He's YOUR God. They're YOUR rules. YOU burn in hell!"
for I have seen the shadow on the moon,
and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."
for it trains people as to how they shall think."--Arthur Shopenhauer
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all other gods,
then you will understand why I dismiss yours."--Stephen Roberts
and sadistic conduct, both public and private,
that can compare with the Bible."--Lord Paget
who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use."--Galileo Galilei
STRENGTH, FREEDOM, OPPRESSION, INDIVIDUALITY, HONOR, AND FEAR
"These flowers possess strength as well as beauty...
They come up through the hard ground...
I love that strength."
Mariel, the Elw girl in Wild ARMs
your life about what you think that you think we
think is cool, and what we're wearing,
and what we're saying and everything.
Go with yourself."--Fiona Apple
on hiding what you feel. It mocks primitive culture
and prides itself on the suppression of natural
instincts and impulses."--Jim Morrison
perhaps it is because he hears the tune of a different
drummer. Let him march to the music he hears,
however measured or far away."--Thoreau
the same as most. That is to say, I'm sort of…well…
different. And yet it seems to have worked for me."--Ellen Degeneres
but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it."--Voltaire
That which we are against, makes us weak."
makes cowards of men."--Abraham Lincoln
where kids are expected to be honest but are judged
and alienated from their community because
of it should not escape us."--Amy Ray
your life well and be honest. It means being out.
If you are not comfortable marching, you can make
a big difference just by working side by side with
someone who actually knows you're gay and
a fine human being."--Melissa Etheridge
outlaws will be free."--Tom Robbins
My honor is my life…"
I didn't think strength was a pretty attribute.
But now I feel it's wonderful."--Emmy Villaverde
than of silence."--Ani Difranco
After that fear has no power and the fear of
freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."--Jim Morrison
what price do we pay for that deception?"
and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Einstein,
and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
To be great is to be misunderstood."--Thoreau
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
"We love without knowing it. A man-or a woman-can't love
on schedule. I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'I shall
start loving at 9:20, and continue until 10:15.' Yes, it is
accidental. And it's everywhere - it's the wind, the tide,
the waves, the sunshine." From The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
We read and write poetry because we are members
of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.
And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble
pursuits and necessary to sustain life.
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
or it was never really love at all."--Ken Kesey
and impossible to forget."
MADNESS, PARANOIA, DEPRESSION, AND REGRET
FINE = Frustrated Insecure Neurotic Emotional
It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow."
the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,
mad to be saved, desirous of everything at
the same time."--Jack Kerouac
you're not paranoid enough."--Susanne Modeski
No other road, no other way, no other day but today." From RENT
MISCELLANEOUS QUOTES
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at work worth doing"--Theodore Roosevelt
the real tragedy in life is when a grown man is afraid of the light."--Plato
from making complete asses of themselves."--Oliver Wendell Holmes
(I know this one is also in the Hate and Misunderstanding
Quotes section, but it was too good not to put in more than once).
let alone rehearse. And I don't think that I'm better
than you, but I don't think that I'm worse."--Ani DiFranco
people than smart people…and we ain't many."--Ken Kesey
when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived."--Thoreau
and that we do not know what we do not know,
that is true knowledge."--Ellen Degeneres
Words are hotter than flames and wetter than water."--Ani DiFranco
are small matters compared to
what lies within us."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hell, and a heaven."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."--Jimi Hendrix
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had.
And add some extra, just for you."--Philip Larkin, This Be the Verse
And last night, I shoulda been worryin' about last night.
And the night before that, I shoulda been worryin' about that night.
Because worrying about tomorrow is a bunch of shit.
'Cause tomorrow may not never come.
Tomorrow: There's no guarantee about tomorrow.
Fuck tomorrow!
You dig what I'm saying?
And yesterday's shit.
Yesterday, that's history.
That's dead and gone.
Yesterday ain't worth nothin'.
It's gone, baby.
'Cause all you got to worry about
is right here, right now."--Sammy Hagar (formerly) of Van Halen
From "Panama" on the Live: Right Here, Right Now Album
CHARLES DARWIN QUOTES
"We are not here concerned with hopes or fears,
only with the truth as far as our reason permits
us to discover it."--Charles Darwin
many other animals which have played so important
a part in the history of the world, as these lowly,
organized creatures."--Darwin
During the summer when the ground is dry,
they penetrate to a considerable depth and cease to work,
as they do during the winter when the ground is frozen.
and at night may be crawling about in large numbers,
but usually with their tails still inserted in their burrows.
By the expansion of this part of their bodies,
and with the help of the short…bristles,
with which their bodies are armed,
they hold so fast that they can seldom be dragged
out of the ground without being torn into pieces.
During the day, they remain in their burrows,
except at the pairing season, when those which
inhabit adjoining burrows expose the greater
part of their bodies for an hour or two in the early morning."
They took not the least notice of the shrill notes
from a metal whistle, which was repeatedly
sounded near them; nor did they of the deepest
and loudest tones of a bassoon.
that the breath did not strike them.
When placed on a table close to the keys of a piano,
which was played as loudly as possible, they remained perfectly quiet."
but does not much progress as they can neither see nor hear.
They are, however, amusing and spend hours in seizing hold
of the edge of a cabbage leaf and trying in vein to pull it into their holes.
They give such tugs they shake the whole leaf."--Emma, Charles' wife and cousin,
in a letter to one of their children
FIONA QUOTES
"I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person
that everything that happens to me, I experience
it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply.
And when you feel things deeply and you think
about things a lot and you think about how you feel,
you learn a lot about yourself.
And when you know yourself, you know life."
knowing what your focus of anger is for.
There's so many assholes in the world.
And as long as you can recognize them, you can avoid them."
and that's really the foreshadowing of my entire career
and my entire life. When I have something to say, I'll say it."
for me to be happy. I know I'm going to die young."
is that there is no right and wrong, only true and false.
If the music and lyrics are conceived out of honesty,
and if the production of the song goes along
with its original message, then what has been
expressed is art regardless of what anyone's opinion is of it.
So things are a lot simpler if you just tell the truth."
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND QUOTES
Dave Matthews on music: "It's a good focus;
to try to bring people together rather than separate them."
That comes from the early days of jazz,
and from the classical influence too."--Carter Beauford
You really can't put a label on it,
and that's why I love it so much."--Carter Beauford
my whole body, my whole soul is into it."--Boyd Tinsley
Jazz, fiddle-style, rock, it's almost a melting pot
of American music. People are drawn into it.
There's passion here."--Boyd Tinsley
COLLECTIVE SOUL
"It's great. There's an age gap between Dean and I,
and I never got to know Dean growing up.
It's great, because he's become more than a brother,
he's a friend."--Ed Roland
and I refuse to be labeled."--Ed Roland
One is called 'Now You Got Me Drinking, Don't Let Me Drink Alone.'
Some of them, I'll play to the guys, who are usually
sitting their with their mouths open going, 'What is that?.'"--Ed Roland
but I have no time yet. I just love writing them.
I'd love to do some scoring too,
but Collective Soul consumes so much of my time."--Ed Roland
getting a record deal, but now that we're passed that.
We realize that there is so much more to it."--Shane Evans
'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand. She Describes mankind
as a 'collective soul' and the phrase always stuck with him.
And it describes our relationship pretty well."--Dean Roland
MATCHBOX 20 QUOTES
"I would rather have someone know all the words to my songs
than to see me in the grocery store, and know who I am.--Rob Thomas
but I'm still the same old piece of tin."--Rob
is that people are supposed to deal with their friends and their family,
and their relationships in a similar way.
There are similarities in everyone's emotions."--Rob
of getting through, surviving, and being on the upswing of things.
For me, these are happy songs."--Rob
it's more like I'd be suffering without it.
Writing songs is almost medicinal for me,
it's the best therapy I can think of."--Rob
that resonate for people. It fits anybody.
They're just about emotions, certain core,
basic emotions that everybody shares.
I don't think I'm speaking for a generation.
I'm not saying anything all that complicated.
I'm just rehashing my emotions."--Rob
because they like our songs, and because there's something
in it that attaches themselves to them and their lives
and the things that they're going through. I mean, you never know,
some people like us 'cause they think we're cute.
Some people like us 'cause we remind them of somebody else.
You never know why, and you can't question it,
you just kind of go with it, and say,
'Thanks, I'm glad it's happening.'"--Rob
reason or no reason. It would be cathartic if
I was learning from it, but I keep making the same mistakes."--Rob
keyboard with me in my backpack, I'd pull it out
and sit there and work on some tunes.
I'd spend a lot of time at three o'clock in the morning,
sitting for hours."--Rob
it's that I fucked Courtney Love in a bathroom in a
Texaco in Alabama or something like that.
Something that sounds like fun.
The rest of it is no good."--Rob
to latch onto and write about. No one in the band is
dying from a heroin addiction.
We're just out there playing."--Kyle Cook
I don't know, I'm just out there playing
my music and enjoying the songs."--Kyle
we hope it embraces everyone. If we like what
we're doing enough, and we're proud of what we're doing,
we hope that everyone will respond in the same way.
That's the key ingredient in this band."--Adam Gaynor
who hide things, and they're afraid to put things out there.
They're afraid to tell people what they really think."--Paul Doucette
