Greatest lines in Rock 'n Roll history

cb wrote:

My favorite opener:

Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste.

That is a great opener. Here are a few other classics openers.

Hello darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Yesterday

All my troubles seemed so far away

Now it looks as though they're here to stay

Just a small town girl

Livin' in a lonely world

And a few from Dylan that came to mind.

You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal

Two riders were approaching

And the wind began to howl

And what about...

It's better to burn out

Than to fade away

My my, hey hey.

Some of my favorites:

I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form

Come in, she said I'll give ya shelter from the storm- Dylan

I'll ride the wave where it takes me

I'll hold the pain; release me- Pearl Jam

There's a man who walks beside me he is who I used to be

And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me- Jason Isbell

Though I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that went before

I know I'll often stop and think about them

In my life I love you more

Herb derb flurfy flumpfy fetter

Blemdy durp harby darby dum

-Eddie Vedder

Two from the same song, Time by Pink Floyd:

The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

fansofonly wrote:

from Pink Floyd:

The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

One of my favorite descriptive lyrics is from Pink Floyd:

"Day after day, love turns gray, like the skin on a dying man."

The rest of the verse is just as descriptive but the OP asked for a line, not the whole verse.

always liked..

down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstacy, i followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory and all your raging glory..

may have gotten them wrong but cba to look up

And I know that you think it's just a fantasy

But since your dad walked out

Your mom could use a guy like me

First line of the song that changed it all:

"I was sayin let me out of here before I was

even born--it's such a gamble when you get a face

It's fascinatin to observe what the mirror does

but when I dine it's for the wall that I set a place"

"Blank Generation", by Richard Hell and the Voidoids

If you chose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Rush

Freewill

"What can a poor boy do, 'cept for sing for a rock n roll band" from Street Fighting Man

"I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm. I'm the runaway son of the nuclear A bomb" from Search and Destroy

Bertrand wrote:

‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy

Jimi Hendrix

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Hold me closer Tony Danza

Elton John

Mondegreens don't count.

Some additional contributions….

Velvet Underground: “Who loves the sun? Not everyone. “

Metallica: “Sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight, exit light, enter night, take my hand, we’re off to never never land.”

Skynard: “If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?”

Doors: “This is the end, my only friend, the end.”

Joe Walsh: “My Maserati does one eighty-five. I lost my license , now I don’t drive.”

Built to Spill already covered this subject:

You were wrong when you said

Everything's gunna be alright

Yeah you were wrong when you said

Everything's gunna be alright

You were right when you said

All that glitters isn't gold

You were right when you said

All we are is dust in the wind

You were right when you said

We are all just bricks in the wall

And when you said

Manic depression's a frustrating mess

You were wrong when you said

Everything's gunna be alright

Yeah you were wrong when you said

Everything's gunna be alright

You were wrong when you said

Everything's gunna be alright

You were right when you said

You can't always get what you want

You were right when you said

It's a hard rain's gunna fall

You were right when you said

We're still running against the wind

Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone

You were right when you said

This is the end

Do you have to think about it?

Do you have to think about it?

Do you have to think about it?

Do you have to think about it?

And Patti started that one off strong "Jesus died for somebodys sins but not mine"

Changes aren’t permanent. But change is.

But one that Built to Spill left out:

Her body fits me like a flesh tuxedo

I like to sink her with my pink torpedo...

and really, pretty much any Spinal Tap lyrics