Greatest lines in Rock 'n Roll history

Someone painted 'April Fool' in big black letters on a 'Dead End sign,

I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind,

Oldrunningguy wrote:

John Lennon

"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans"

That's an old saying which Lennon borrowed. It was even a Salada tea tag line.

From the big guns:

Beatles: And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.”

Stones: I was born in a crossfire hurricane

Who: Hope I die before I get old

Dylan: You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely

But you know you only used to get juiced in it

Bruce: every word of Thunder Road. I mean how do you pick just one of those?

Paul Simon:

And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon god they made

And the sign flashed out its warning

In the words that it was forming

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets

Are written on the subway walls

And tenement halls

And whispered in the sounds of silence"

Little Richard: Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!

"Two men say they're Jesus, one of

them must be wrong"

Dire Straits Industrial Disease

"A man hears what he wants to hear

and disregards the rest"

Simon and Garfunkel The Boxer

Another giver of +1 wrote:

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

Yes, definitely. And from the same song:

"Now I'm not saying that makes me an innocent man,

but it was more than all this that put that gun in my hand."

Sticking with Springsteen, I've always like this from "The Ghost of Tom Joad":

"You got a one way ticket to the promised land.

You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand."

U2 - Mysterious Ways

"If you want to kiss the sky you better learn how to kneel."

Robert Earl Keen - Dreadful Selfish Crime

"One thing I have found there are just two ways to go

It all comes down to livin' fast or dyin' slow."

Jason Isbell - Elephant

"There's one thing that's real clear to me. No one dies with dignity."

If Not for You- Dylan/Harrison (cover):

If not for you the winter would hold no spring ...

coach wrote:

"Two men say they're Jesus, one of

them must be wrong"

Dire Straits Industrial Disease

Yes, that's a fantastic line.

You realise the sun doesn't go down,

It's just an illusion caused by the world, spinning round.

Temp Oh wrote:

You realise the sun doesn't go down,

It's just an illusion caused by the world, spinning round.

Flaming LIps! Hell yes to these lines and song.

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"Hey hey mama said the way you move

Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove"

honest al wrote:

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

Rush

Freewill

Love this one, I actually consider it part of my own mentality when it comes to tough decisions.

Just a small town girl

Living in a lonely world

(Journey)

Here come the jesters... 1, 2, 3

It's all part of my fantasy

(Bad Co)

I wish I was like you, easily amused.

Nirvana

There was a line that must have gone on for miles for Stones concert tickets

And in the end

The love you take

Is equal to the love you make…

The Beatles

“But I believe in this and it’s been tested by research: he who f^cks nuns will later join the church.”

Joe Strummer.

Seven days, seven more days that are connected

Just like I expected, she'll be comin' on forth,

My beautiful comrade from the north.

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

Pink Floyd, Time

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again

You can't have freedom for free

Rush, Something for Nothing

johnny99 wrote:

Not sure how well known this song is if you're not a John Prine fan, but:

"There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes,

Jesus Christ died for nothin', I suppose."

This. As a recovering addict, no song is bleaker or truer than this. One of the darkest choruses of all time.