Greatest lines in Rock 'n Roll history

KeefMick wrote:

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

Yeah, I know, and boy did that line ever ring the bell!

What a epic ode to defiance. I saw here in about 1976, and she was really out there.

I actually like the line you mentioned better than the one i quoted, but i wasn't sure how it would go over. The whole song is just alive.

Thx. for tossing that one out there.

My offerings...

We can never know about the days to come

But we think about them anyway

- Carly Simon, "Anticipation"

Went up on the mountain

To see what I could see

The whole world was fallin'

Right down in front of me

-Gregg Allman, "Dreams"

I fought the law and the law won. - Bobby Fuller Four

You can’t catch me , cause if you get too close I’m gone like a cool breeze. - Chuck Berry

I’ve got a hundred more like you, so don’t be blue - I’ll have a thousand before I’m through. - Gordon Lightfoot.

She blew my nose and then she blew my mind. - The Rolling Stones

And a new day will dawn

For those who stand long

Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life

I know you'll be a star

In somebody else's sky

But why

Why

Why can't it be

Oh can't it be mine

Pearl Jam - Black

It's a long way to the top of you wanna rock 'n' roll.

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup

They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind

Possessing and caressing me

Prison for ninety eight and a year and we'll call it even Johnny 99.

Holly came from Miami, Fla

I hope we don't seem messianic

or a trifle too satanic...

I've heard it before, I don't want to hear it again.

I've heard it before, I just want to shut you up.

BLACK FLAG

Your No Good ,Your no good.....Baby Your No Good, Tell Me Again...

"If I had a mind to

I wouldn't want to think like you

And if I had time to

I wouldn't want to talk to you, oho-oh

I don't care

What you do

I wouldn't want to be like you, yeah"

- Alan Parsons Project "I Wouldn't want to be like you."

Sitting on a park bench

Eyeing little girls with bad intent

Snot's running down his nose

Greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes

Lord of Ages, God of Time, mine is the right to be wrong. (Jethro Tull)

Well she was just 17, you know what I mean

Running related:

You can build a mansion, but you just can't live in it

You're the fastest runner but you're not allowed to win

"No One Is To Blame" -- Howard Jones