“You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.” PeopleLittlesMightEarthRocksWindBalanceWalkingHealthyMetsWelcomeBehaveWireNudgeTumbling Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary spirit of the late-70s punk scene in regards to design and politics and fashion and stuff like that.” DoeSpiritStuffCreativityRocksFashionDesignHealthySceneDiversityLateRegardRevolutionaryPunkIndie Rock Author:Bruce Pavitt
“Mandela once told me that he lived on hatred when he went into prison because he was young and he was being abused and he was out there cracking those rocks all day and he said after about 11 years he realized that they'd already taken about everything they could take from him except his mind and his heart” InspirationalYearsMindHeartSaidMotivationalYoungTakenRocksHealthyHatredPrisonWell BeingAlready Taken Author:Hillary Clinton
“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.” IfsShouldCareHellInfluenceRocksHealthyWeightConstitutionPressureHeavyFallenRighteousnessWickednessSpidersPrudencePlungeLetting You Go Book:Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons Source: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons
“Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents?” IfsFeelsSelfShowsKidsTodayParentGroupsRocksHealthyTasteUniqueStonesRoseRock N RollReunion Author:Andrew Loog Oldham
“I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.” IfsNeedsRunningRocksHealthyMedicineBitterPunkPunk Rock Author:Bradford Cox