Cbgb's Quotes

#1. I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#2. I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

Henry Rollins

#3. The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam

Anne Michaels

#4. I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#5. I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.

Ashley Greene

#6. Men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

Baruch Spinoza

#7. Decades can pass,
You can move countries,
Wars can be fought,
People can die,
People can change,
But the stars stay the same.
They stay constant,
They are really the only reliable things in life

NorthByNorth

#8. CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.

Dave Grohl

#9. we did an acoustic set at CBGB on October 30, 1987, where we debuted "Patience.

Duff McKagan

#10. My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

Taufik Hidayat

#11. There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#12. I think what really clicked for me was when I started booking commercials as a dancer ... just being on set and seeing every element of production, it was magic to me.

Bree Turner

#13. The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.

George Inness

#14. If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely - legend, Mr Wayne.

Henri

#15. This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.

Alberto Manguel

#16. Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

Andrew Lakey

#17. I'll see you soon," he whispered, the lump in his throat rising again to jar the release of his sigh. He swallowed once more and said, "But it won't be soon enough.

Laury Falter

#18. The lamp tipped over, nailing Kane in the head.
Sabin shook his head. The man was a walking disaster Literally. Whenever Kane stepped into a room, things went to hell pretty quickly. Sabin expected the ceiling to cave in any moment. And yea, it had happened before.

Gena Showalter

#19. If they liked a tune, they wanted to hear it again - now! The vibe was more like CBGB than your typical contemporary opera house.

David Byrne

#20. Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.

Michael Stipe

#21. I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

Priyanka Chopra

#22. We shot 'CBGB' in Savannah, and then I took another project there afterwards called 'Killing Winston Jones.' It's a dark comedy with Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Glover, Jon Heder, Danny Masterson and Aly Michalka. It's a great cast and a beautiful film.

Joel David Moore

#23. Just selfishly, I wanted to be associated with something as synonymous with cool and cutting edge and artistic as CBGB. People are aware of that, at least, even if nothing else. That's something to be proud of, to be a small part of the association with something like that.

Johnny Galecki