This Moustache Kills Fascists

I mean I can’t be the saint people dream of now. People want a street angel. They want a saint but with a cowboy mouth. Somebody to get off on when they can’t get off on themselves. I think that’s what Mick Jagger is trying to do…what Bob Dylan seemed to be for a while. A sort of God in our image…ya know? Mick Jagger came close but he got too conscious. For a while he gave me hope… I want it to be perfect, ‘cause it’s the only religion I got…in the old days people had a Jesus and those people to embrace… They created a god with all their belief energies… But it’s too hard now. We’re earthy people and the old saints just don’t make it, and the old God is just too far away. He don’t represent our pain no more. His words don’t shake through us no more. Any great motherfucker rock’n’roll song can raise me higher than all of Revelations. We created rock’n’roll from our own image, it’s our child… -Sam Shepard, Cowboy Mouth

I mean I can’t be the saint people dream of now. People want a street angel. They want a saint but with a cowboy mouth. Somebody to get off on when they can’t get off on themselves. I think that’s what Mick Jagger is trying to do…what Bob Dylan seemed to be for a while. A sort of God in our image…ya know? Mick Jagger came close but he got too conscious. For a while he gave me hope… I want it to be perfect, ‘cause it’s the only religion I got…in the old days people had a Jesus and those people to embrace… They created a god with all their belief energies… But it’s too hard now. We’re earthy people and the old saints just don’t make it, and the old God is just too far away. He don’t represent our pain no more. His words don’t shake through us no more. Any great motherfucker rock’n’roll song can raise me higher than all of Revelations. We created rock’n’roll from our own image, it’s our child…

-Sam Shepard, Cowboy Mouth

“Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.” ― Lester Bangs

“Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.”
― Lester Bangs

“You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it’s a lie.” - Kathleen Hanna

“You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it’s a lie.”

- Kathleen Hanna

And one day we will dieAnd our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the seaBut for now we are youngLet us lay in the sun And count every beautiful thing we can see … how strange it is to be anything at all.- Jeff Mangum, Neutral Milk Hotel

And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see

… how strange it is to be anything at all.
- Jeff Mangum, Neutral Milk Hotel

“That’s where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn’t even know was there until I let it out.”  -Etta James

“That’s where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn’t even know was there until I let it out.” 

-Etta James

“Never apologize, never explain - didn’t we always say that? Well, I haven’t and I don’t.” ― Marianne Faithfull

“Never apologize, never explain - didn’t we always say that? Well, I haven’t and I don’t.”
― Marianne Faithfull

“I don’t want to be remembered as a person with Aids, I want to be remembered as a person with ideas.” - Leigh Bowery

“I don’t want to be remembered as a person with Aids, I want to be remembered as a person with ideas.” - Leigh Bowery

If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. - Kurt Vonnegut

If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

- Kurt Vonnegut

“I enjoyed my life when I had nothing… and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.” - Joey Ramone

“I enjoyed my life when I had nothing… and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.”

- Joey Ramone

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.” ― Patti Smith

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.”
― Patti Smith