Alternative Bands Quotes

#1. The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.

Conor Oberst

#2. I knew about Heatmiser, and I saw them one time at Pine Street [later changed to La Luna], which was the center of a lot of alternative bands during the 80s. But I didn't really know too much about their music.

Gus Van Sant

#3. Knox's father shrugged. "They're children. We don't need their forgiveness.

Alex London

#4. The big lesson about loving someone was coming to understand that when love ended for one person, it ended for both people.

Elizabeth George

#5. It was humbling to admit that I wasn't living the simple life because I was spiritually committed to it. I was living the simple life because I was poor.

Paul David Tripp

#6. The time of the third millennium is the time when the people of God will walk, covered by
God's glory, performing great wonders and miracles.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Albert Camus

#8. I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

Nick Zinner

#9. (As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.)

Mary Roach

#10. The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.

George W. S. Trow

#11. Mark Twain: It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Wayne W. Dyer

#12. I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.

Nate Ruess

#13. If you've ever walked a mile into a virgin forest - you know, like a deep forest where trees have been uncut - the energy is totally different from the shopping mall.

James Redfield

#14. He began to walk slowly around me, as a man in a museum might circle a statue.

J. Kenner

#15. I like to discover new things, and I'm always testing new apps.

Francois-Henri Pinault

#16. The end of Humanism stems from the power of Humanism itself.

Franco Berardi, Bifo

#17. I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

Al Yankovic