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How to Kill a Rock Star QUOTES

How to Kill a Rock Star QUOTES

1 " Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

2 " The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normal
people with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’t
exist on the road. The nights spread out like the dark,
godforsaken highways that distinguish them, and the days run
together like Thanksgiving dinner smothered in gravy. You
never really know where you are or what time it is, and the outside
world starts to fade away.
It’s cool. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

3 " I can say this because she’s my girlfriend, even if, at the moment, she’s only my girlfriend in secret - Eliza has one of the worst voices known to man. Swear to God, for someone so obsessed with music, she’s borderline tone deaf. But trying to describe how I felt watching her dance around and sing would be like trying to build a skyscraper with my bare hands. It made me want to marry her. Made me want to buy her a magical airplane and fly her away to a place where nothing bad could ever happen. Made me want to pour rubber cement all over my chest and then lay down on top of her so that we’d be stuck together, and so it would hurt like hell if we ever tried to tear ourselves apart. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

4 " Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

5 " Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating? "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

6 " The music defied classification. If I had been writing a
review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive,
guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But the guitars made sounds guitars
didn’t always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds.
The music dug in so deep you didn’t hear it so much as feel
it, reminding me of a dream I used to have when I was a kid,
where I would be standing on a street corner, I would jump
into the air, flap my arms, and soar up into the sky.
That’s the only way I could describe the music.
It was the sonic equivalent of flight. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

7 " I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don’t care how condescending that sounds, it’s true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

8 " Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

9 " You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I’d vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think
about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn’t have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

10 " Swear to God, for someone so obsessed with music, she’s borderline tone deaf. But trying to describe how I felt watching her dance around and sing would be like trying to build a skyscraper with my bare hands. It made me want to marry her. Made me want to buy her a magic airplane and fly her away to a place where nothing bad could ever happen. Made me want to pour rubber cement all over my chest and then lay down on top of her so that we’d be stuck together, and so it would hurt like hell if we ever tried to tear ourselves apart. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

11 " But sometimes, talent isn't worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal number of brilliant artists whose name and voices you'll never hear. - Paul Hudson "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

12 " We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

13 " I think I was about to say that if I ever see Eliza again—and the fact that this is even a remote possibility is—I don’t know what it is, a goddamn miracle, maybe? After I kiss her and hold her and let her touch my chest, I’m going to hang her upside down and employ Chinese water torture until she promises never to be so stupid again. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

14 " Did you really want to die?"
"No one commits suicide because they want to die."
"Then why do they do it?"
"Because they want to stop the pain. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

15 " I guess I need to find a happy medium, someplace between giving them what they want and ending up face-down in a pool of my own goddamn integrity. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

16 " I would have remembered the good stuff.
Nobody ever remembers the good stuff. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

17 " Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

18 " There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

19 " There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint them. Or we sing about them. It’s our only option. To remember. To attempt to discover the truth. Sometimes we do it to stay alive. These things, they live inside of us. They are the secrets we stash in our pockets and the weapons we carry like guns across our backs. And in the end we have to decide for ourselves when these things are worth fighting for, and when it’s time to throw in the towel. Sometimes a person has to die in order to live. Deep down, I know you know this. You just can’t seem to do anything about it. I guess it’s a sad fact of life that some of us move on and some of us inevitably stay behind. Only in this case I’m not sure which one of us is doing which. You were right about one thing though. It’s not fate. It’s a choice. And who knows, maybe we’ll meet again someday, somewhere up above all the noise. Until then, when you think of me, try and remember the good stuff. Try and remember the love. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star

20 " I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding. "

― Tiffanie DeBartolo , How to Kill a Rock Star