Michael Azerrad · 522 pages
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“Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spirit... -Calvin Johnson”
― Michael Azerrad, quote from Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
“Los Angeles wasn’t a sun-splashed utopia anymore—it was an alienated, smog-choked sprawl rife with racial and class tensions, recession, and stifling boredom.”
― Michael Azerrad, quote from Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
“Music can inspire people to wake up and say, ‘Somebody’s lying.’ This is the point I’d like to make with my music,” Watt told Rolling Stone in 1985. “Make you think about what’s expected of you, of your friends. What’s expected of you by your boss. Challenge those expectations. And your own expectations. Man, you should challenge your own ideas about the world every day.”
― Michael Azerrad, quote from Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
“Boon and Watt had the bad—or perhaps good—fortune to come of age during one of rock’s most abject periods. “That Seventies stuff, the Journey, Boston, Foreigner stuff, it was lame,” Watt says. “If it weren’t for those type of bands we never would have had the nerve to be a band. But I guess you need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming—if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.”
― Michael Azerrad, quote from Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
“I’m not religious about God,” Boon agreed, “I’m religious about Man.” “We believe in average guys,” said Watt. “What happens is, the system makes them all fuckheads.” “And I want to try to snap them out of that,” said Boon. “That’s why I write these songs, OK?”
― Michael Azerrad, quote from Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
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“Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped.”
― John Fowles, quote from Daniel Martin
“This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're
both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any
questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.”
― John Marsden, quote from The Other Side of Dawn
“Life is a school of the spirit, Aidan,” Ruadh intoned with gentle insistence. “Learning is our soul’s requirement, and suffering our most persuasive teacher.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium
“إن الذنب بالمعنى المألوف دينيا ودنيويا لا يفهم إلا في إطار البناء الشمولي للمجتمع وهو بناء ينتمي للنموذج التملكي لوجودنا, حيث مركزنا الإنساني لا يوجد في داخلنا, ولكنه موجود في السلطة التي نخضع لها, وحيث نحقق الرفاهية من خلال نشاطنا الذاتي الخلاق, ولكن بالطاعة السلبية للسلطة, ومن ثم استحسانها لما نفعل, ونحن نملك قائدا دنيويا او روحيا, ملكا او ملكة او راعي كنيسة ونملك ايمانا به, ومن ثم نملك الأمن والأمان طالما نحن لا شيء, اي لا كيان مستقل لنا, قد لا نكون واعيين بخضوعنا للسلطة إلى هذا الحد وقد تكون السلطة في مظهرها صارمة أو قد تكون رقيقة, وقد لا يكون البناء الاجتماعي مكتمل الشمولية.. ولكن كل هذا يجب ألا يجعلنا غافلين عن حقيقة أننا نعيش في النمط التملكي إلى الدرجة التي صار البناء الشمولي لمجتمعنا جزءا من ذاتنا واصبح مبدأ داخليا هاديا لمشاعرنا وسلوكنا.
ونحن نتفق مع الفونس أوير حين يؤكد بوضوح أن رؤية توما الأكويني للسلطة وعدم الطاعة والخطيئة هي رؤية تتفق تماما مع النزعة الانسانية, حيث يذهب إلى أن الخروج على سلطة غير عقلانية ليس ذنبا أو إثما, وإنما الإثم يكون في انتهاك الحياة الانسانية الكريمة.
"لا يمكن أن نسيء إلى الرب إلا إذا كانت أفعالنا انتهاكا لحياتنا وكرامتنا نحن".”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
“As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Oracle Night
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