Favorite quotes from classic Rock n Roll songs

[Gunmetalgray]

What's some of your favorite quotes or words to live by from classic Rock n Roll songs? Song & artist, or leave um guessing.
So many but this just played so will start with it;
"It's better to burn out yeah, than fade away!" -Def Leppard, Rock of Ages

 

[marvin02]

Not a favorite, but here is a case of running out of rhymes:

Every day a little sadder
A little madder
Someone get me a ladder

Still...You Turn Me On by Emerson, Lake & Palmeron Brain Salad Surgery (1973), The Best of Emerson Lake & Palmer (1994)

ladder? Listening to the song makes it even clearer that it they were stretching here to make the song work.

 

[rob63]

Talk to yourself if you feel you need talking to. - Toad the Wet Sprocket

You can't call it cheating 'cause she reminds me of you. - Gin Blossoms

 

[Snapdragon]

More folk/alternative than rock and roll, but a line from the Strumbella's "Spirits" has stuck with me since I first heard it.

"And I don't want a never-ending life; I just want to be alive while I'm here."

 

[JCSR]

Van Morrison

These are the days of the endless summer
These are the days, the time is now
There is no past, there's only future
There's only here, there's only now

 

[DoggyDaddy]

"Breathe deep, the gathering gloom.
Watch lights fade from every room.
Bed sitter people look back and lament.
Another day's useless energy spent.

Impassioned lovers wrestle as one.
Lonely man cries for love and has none.
New mother picks up and suckles her son.
Senior citizens wish they were young.

Cold-hearted orb that rules the night.
Removes the colours from our sight.
Red is grey and yellow white.
But we decide which is right... and which is an illusion."

Moody Blues, "Nights in White Satin".

 

[MindfulMan]

"I may be going to hell in a bucket
But at least I'm enjoying the ride"

Grateful Dead
-Hell in a Bucket-

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Not a favorite, but here is a case of running out of rhymes:

Every day a little sadder
A little madder
Someone get me a ladder

Still...You Turn Me On by Emerson, Lake & Palmeron Brain Salad Surgery (1973), The Best of Emerson Lake & Palmer (1994)

ladder? Listening to the song makes it even clearer that it they were stretching here to make the song work.

I always took the ladder reference as wanting to "rise above" the sadness and madness.

 

[SouthernStar25]

Catch Your Dreams Before They Slip Away

Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday

 

[jbombelli]

"My love for you is like a truck, berserker! Would you like some making ****, berserker! My love for you is like a rock, berserker! Berserkerrrrrrrrraaghghghrrrrgh

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

Find out that now was the answer to answers
That you gave later
She did the things that we both did before now
But who forgave her?
If I could stand to see her crying
I would tell her not to care
When she learns of all your lying
Will she join you there?

CSNY- Country Girl

 

[armalitesheepdog]

You treat me right
Baby I'll treat you right.....
That's the way it's supposed to be..

Ronnie Van Zant
1973

 

[Bennettjh]

"Late at night a big old house gets lonely
I guess every form of refuge has its price."

Lyin' Eyes - Eagles.

 

[indyblue]

You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Time - Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

 

[Knight Rider]

“If you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re with”

I requested this played at my wedding reception. Still makes me laugh every time I hear that song.

 

[Gunmetalgray]

“If you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re with”

I requested this played at my wedding reception. Still makes me laugh every time I hear that song.

LOL!! Risky move at your reception, unless she has a good sense of humor!

 

[jbombelli]

I been to the edge,

And there I stood and looked down,

You know I lost a lot of friends there baby,

I got no time to mess around.

 

[KellyinAvon]

If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me…

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Freebird

 

[red_zr24x4]

Later on that day
My homie Dr. Dre came through with a gang of Tanqueray
And a fat a** J, of some bubonic chronic that made me choke
S***, this ain't no joke
I had to back up off of it and sit my cup down
Tanqueray and chronic, yeah, I'm f****d up now
But it ain't no stoppin', I'm still poppin'
Dre got some b*****s from the city of Compton

Snoop, but I prefer the Gourds Bluegrass version more

 

[MadBomber]

As the boss, I endorse this lyric:

"The boss ain't as smart as he'd like to be.
But he ain't nearly as dumb as you think.
He just wants evolution on budget with the schedule you keep"

**** Shots Count....Drive By Truckers