Richard Wagner, Poop Sandwich, Erik Satie, Dirt Eaters, Dostoyevski, Empty Suits, Vandals, The Jokerhere's a shitload of quotes that I like:
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero (106 BC - 43)
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
Lois McMaster Bujold
now i'm in quoting mode, here is more that i like:
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. - Frank Motherfucking Zappa
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Picasso... bitch
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
Aaron Copland
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
John Cage
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
Noel Coward
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Albert Einstein
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Albert Einstein
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Sophy Burnham
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.
Waiter Rant
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Jewish Proverb
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
Luis Bunuel
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
John Cage
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain
[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Lawana Blackwell
It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Albert Camus
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung
the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
Voltaire
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Voltaire
Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire
In love, one and one are one.
Jean-Paul Sartre
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence precedes and rules essence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right...
Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?
-- Frank Zappa,
The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
-- Frank Zappa
Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?
-- Frank Zappa
The whole Universe is a large joke.
Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke.
So why take anything too serious.
-- Frank Zappa
Your mind is a parachute, it works best when its open.
-Zappa
"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST..."-Zappa
"Maybe it would be better if people stopped trying to find a person who is right for them, and focused on being the right person for themselves." -Jim Skalicky