Mekons Quotes

#1. The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

Lester Bangs

#2. I would rather be loved by millions and hated by the same number rather than moderately liked by everyone.

Josh Bernstein

#3. A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

Ivan Turgenev

#4. Sometimes I feel like Fletcher Christian.

Mekons

#5. Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#6. With a languid hand he brushed away the cobwebs of his siesta ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

Robin S. Sharma

#8. France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

Wilfred Burchett

#9. How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!

Gail Carriger

#10. If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?

Calvin Trillin

#11. Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

Mason Cooley

#12. The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Jonathan Franzen

#13. Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.

Harville Hendrix

#14. I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

Alycia Debnam Carey