Hello Chicken, Meet Egg. Egg, Meet Chicken

What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music? – Rob Gordon, High Fidelity

High Fidelity opening monologue

Sad songs (Say so much)
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Sing it, Reggie!

There's Too Much Love

But it's best to finish as it started

With my face head down just staring at the brown formica

It's safer not to look around

I can't hide my feelings from you now

There's too much love to go around these days

You say I've got another face

That's not a fault of mine these days

I'm brutal honest, and afraid of you 

- Belle and Sebastian, There’s Too Much Love

Try the best you can

Music [or anything creative] is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well. – Martin Gore (Depeche Mode)

(brackets mine)

You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough  

Your mistakes are your style

When you're experimenting, you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, that you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. And here is the reward for perseverance: The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. - Fred Astaire

The best of Lester, the worst of Lester...

You are the best. You are the worst. You are average. Your love is a part of you. You try to give it away because you cannot bear its radiance, but you cannot separate it from yourself. To understand your fellow humans, you must understand why you give them your love. You must realize that hate is but a crime-ridden subdivision of love. You must reclaim what you never lost. You must take leave of your sanity, and yet be fully responsible for your actions. - Gnarls Barkley, in a letter to the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs

Regret, The Gibby Haynes Way

"Daddy?”

“Yes, son?”

“What does regret mean?”
“Well son, the funny thing about regret is it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done. And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend be sure and tell her,

SATAN, SATAN, SATAN!!!" – Gibson Jerome “Gibby” Haynes (Butthole Surfers), Sweat Loaf

Frank Sinatra

What the world needs now is a new Frank Sinatra, so I can get you in bed - Cracker, Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)

McVie/Buckingham Wisdom

Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow

Don’t stop, it’ll soon be here

It’ll be, better than before

Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone. 

– Fleetwood Mac

Revolution!! (against yourself)

If ever I would stop thinking about music and politics
I would tell you that the personal revolution
is far more difficult
and the first step in any revolution – Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

Sad Songs Really Do Say So Much

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else. – Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips)

Say it with Flava!

We got Magnum Brown, Shoothki - Valoothki

Super-calafraga-hestik-alagoothki

You could put dat in ya don't know what I said book

Took-look-yuk-duk-wuk – Public Enemy, Flavor Flav

He's lampin' he's lampin', he's cold cold lampin'

Happy-go-lucky You

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbeck

 

Feeling kind of Muppety

It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet the muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.

It's time put on makeup
It's time to dress up right
It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight

Why do we always come here?
I guess we'll never know
It's like a kind of torture
To have to watch the show

But now its getting started
Why don't you get things started?
It's time to get things started
On the most sensantional
Inspirational
Celebrational
Muppet-ational
This is what we call The Muppet Show! 

- Theme song to The Muppet Show

Finding yourself

The true vocation of man is to find his way to himself. - Hermann Hesse

If ever I would stop thinking about music and politics...

Writing your own Rules

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. – Truman Capote

"And God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends! It's flaccid, sloppy writing."