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Dionysos was the first rock star. His special hymn, the dithyramb, was wild and ecstatic, treating themes such as death, love, and dismemberment. Dionysos was said to have invented the drum, and his celebrations always included loud playing upon the aulos or flute. Although it was Apollo who invented the kithera the two frequently had lengthy jam sessions. Wherever Dionysos went, throngs of excited women followed - the first groupies and fans. Euripides called him a "long-hair" and said that he dressed in effeminite, flowing clothes. He was beautiful, sexy, a little dark and frightening - but capable of filling an audience with quiet rapture or violent release. Every great musician - from Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Plant, Prince, Axl Rose to Ricky Martin and Marilyn Manson - have been called "Dionysian". He is the essence of rock 'n' roll - sex, drugs, and euphoric liberation. Tori Amos These precious things, let them bleed. - Precious Things The truth is in between the 1st and 40th drink. - Concertina Bad Religion Conciousness has plagued us and we cannot shake it. - No Control I'll remain unperturbed by the joy and madness that I encounter everywhere I turn. - Generator The Beatles Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void. - Tomorrow Never Knows One thing I can tell you is you got to be free. Come together right now. - Come together Love is the answer and you know that for sure. Love is a flower you got to let it grow. - Mind games Whisper words of wisdom, Let it be - Let it be I get high with a little help from my friends. - A Little Help From My Friends Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns, it calls me on and on across the universe. - Across The Universe When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there. - Within You Without You David Bowie All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex. - Sex And The Church You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face. - Janine I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free. - All The Madmen He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar - Ziggy Stardust I’m drawn between the light and dark - Quicksand Chicago Tell me, what kind of man would I be, living a life without meaning? - What Kind Of Man Would I Be? Chumbawamba He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink, he drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink. He sings the songs that remind him of the good times. - Tubthumping Collective Soul Open the door to your broken soul, drift away as you feel so cold. Let out the madness that plagues your mind, c'mon let it out, let it go, now it's time. - Cloud 9 1/2 Neil Diamond Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you. - Sweet Caroline Jim Morrison and the Doors We chased our pleasures here, dug our treasures there. Can you still recall the time we cried? Break on through to the other side. - Break On Through We chased our pleasures here Dug our treasures there Can you still recall The time we cried? Break on through to the other side. - Break on Through Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. - Jim Morrison, Interview I call upon the dark hidden Gods of the blood. - American Prayer Where is the wine we were promised, the new wine? - American Prayer We could plan a murder, or start a religion. - American Prayer I promised I would drown myself in mystic heated wine... - Yes, the River Knows Let us reinvent the Gods, all the myths of the ages; celebrate symbols from deep elder forests. - American Prayer I am a guide to the labyrinth. - American Prayer I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. - Jim Morrison, Interview Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. - In Beauty Bob Dylan Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire. - Wiggle Wiggle Enigma The principles of lust are easy to understand, do what you feel, feel until the end. - Sadness Faith No More To touch the roots of experience, the most basic ingredients, to see the unseen glitter of life, and feel the dirt, grief, anger, and strife. - The Real Thing Cherish the certainty of now. - The Real Thing Dan Fogelberg We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how. - Same Old Lang Syne Frankie Goes to Hollywood Are we living in a land where sex and horror are the new Gods? - Two Tribes Peter Gabriel The rhythm is below me. The rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me. The rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me. The rhythm has my soul. The rhythm of the heat. The rhythm of the heat. - The Rhythm of the Heat Self-conscious, uncertain. I'm showered with the dust. The spirit enters into me. And I submit to .... trust. - The Rhythm of the Heat See me a big woman, big woman look how you dance. See me a big woman, big woman look how you trance. Dancing on the tabletop, covered up with the Easter feast. You're dancing for the fishermen, from the very large, right to the least. Dancing for the slow release, first the boy then the beast. Burning, burning with the kiss of life. Burning, burning with the kiss of life. See me a big woman, big woman so full of life. - Kiss of Life And in this moment, I need to be needed. With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cos I love to be loved. - Love to be Loved In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man. With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man. We wanted the union, oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man. - Blood of Eden At my request you take me in, in that tenderness I am floating away. No certainty, nothing to rely on. Holding still for a moment. What a moment this is. Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss. - Blood of Eden I stood in this unsheltered place 'til I could see the face behind the face. - Secret World With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same. - Secret World Marvin Gaye Sexual healing is good for me. - Sexual Healing Goo Goo Dolls What you feel is what you are, and what you are is beautiful. - Slide Jimi Hendrix Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful. - Are You Experienced White collared conservatives, flashing down the street, pointing their plastic fingers at me. They're hoping soon my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. - If 6 Was 9 Janis Ian Whatever does not kill us sets us free. - Searching For America Kid Rock I am the Bull God. I am free. - Bull God Led Zeppelin The seasons of emotions and like the winds they rise and fall. This is the wonder of devotion, I see the torch we all must hold. - The Rain Song Spent my days with a woman unkind, smoked my stuff and drank all my wine. - Going To California Let the music be your master. Will you heed the master's call? - Houses of the Holy I am a traveler of both time and space. - Kashmir Live To be alive, I say that the colors must swirl. And I believe that maybe today, we will all get to appreciate the beauty of gray. - The Beauty Of Gray London After Midnight The hunt is not the thrill I'm after. I want the kill. - The Bondage Song Madonna I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me. - Mergirl Bob Marley One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Dave Matthews Band Celebrate we will, because life is short but sweet for certain. - Two Step Sarah McLachlan It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees. - Angel John Cougar Mellencamp I want you to dance naked, if you like, I'll join you. - Dance Naked George Michael Sex is natural, sex is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should. - I Want Your Sex Joni Mitchell We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down. - Carey I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well. - California Ozzy Osbourne I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party. - Demon Alcohol Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll. - Revelation I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober. - MTV News Online, 1992 As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on. Peaches and Herb Shake your groove thang, shake your groove thing. - Shake Your Groove Thang Pleasure Force In the rhythm of the need, pour your body over me. Primal force and ancient being. I am you, and you are me. I am flesh. I am skin. I am arms. I am limbs. I am eyes. I am mouth. Yake me to you. I am body. I am lust. I am woman. I am sensual. Oh-ah. In the rhythm of the need, pour your body over me. Primal force and ancient being. I am you, and you are me. I am life life. I am dreams. I am pleasure. I am peace. I am wild. I am still. Take me to you. I am soul. I am heart. Yeah. I am woman. I am sensual. Eye to mouth to hand to skin to breath to heart to love to soul to warmth. Begin. - Rhythm of the Need Elvis Presley Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair. - Treat Me Nice What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89? - Once Is Enough The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world. - King Of The Whole Wide World Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes? - Once Is Enough Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind. - I Gotta Know Prince If I'm gonna die, I'm going to listen to my body tonight. - 1999 I think I like your dress half on. I think I'll un-zip it far enough to see the crack of dawn. - Gett Off There will come a time when love will blow your mind. And everything you look for you'll find. - Diamonds And Pearls Shoot ego all over the sheets. - Scarlet Pussy The smell of animal lust is all over me. - Girl We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life. Electric word life, it means forever and that's a mighty long time. - Let's Go Crazy I'm not a woman, I'm not a man, I am something that you'll never understand. - I Would Die For You I just hate to see an erection go to waste. - Rock Hard In A Funky Place You don't have to be beautiful to turn me on. I just need your body, baby, from dusk to dawn. - Kiss Temptation working my body with a hot flash of animal lust. - Temptation Queen Who wants to live forever? - Who Wants To Live Forever Red Hot Chilli Peppers Copulate to create. - Blood Sugar Sex Magik I mingle with the Gods, I mingle with divinity. - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Losing my taste for the human race. Social grace is a waste of time. It's absurd when I look around. So sublime I blow my mind. - Naked in the Rain I'm in love with the wilderness. - Naked in the Rain He's a freak of nature, but we love him so. He's a freak of nature, but we let him go. - Sir Psycho Sexy Lay me down ... descending waves of graceful pleasure. For your love there is no measure. Her curves they bend with subtle splendor. Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the funk will make me freak. - Sir Psycho Sexy There are no monks in my band. There are no saints in this land. I'll be doin' all I can, if I die an honest man. Confusion is my name, ask me again I'll tell you the same. Persuaded by one sexy dame. No I don't feel no shame. - Funky Monks REM Live your life filled with joy and wonder. - Sweetness Follows Rocky Horror Picture Show Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh - erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Can't you just see it? Don't dream it, be it. - Dr Frank N. Furter Touch-a, touch-a, touch-me, I want to be dirty. Thrill me, chill me, and fulfill me, creature of the night. - Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me The Rolling Stones Bet your Mama don't know you scream like that. - Stray Cat Blues Todd Rundgren I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience. - Temporary Sanity Rush I am born; I am me. I am new. I am free. - In the Valley Different eyes see different things. Different hearts beat on different strings. But there are times for you and me when all such things agree. Listen to my music And hear what it can do There's something here as strong as life, I know that it will reach you. - 2112 iv: Presentation "I bring love to give you solace In the darkness of the night, In the Heart's eternal light. You need only trust your feelings; Only love can steer you right. I bring laughter, I bring music, I bring joy and I bring tears. I will soothe your primal fears. Throw off those chains of reason And your prison disappears." The cities were abandoned, And the forests echoed song. They danced and lived as brothers; They knew love could not be wrong. But the winter fell upon them And it caught them unprepared, Bringing wolves and cold starvation, And the hearts of men despaired. - Hemispheres III. Dionysus: Bringer of Love I am dead and yet unborn. - Hemispheres V. Cygnus: Bringer of Balance Salt-N-Pepper Can't you hear the music pumping hard like I wish you would. - Push It Simon and Garfunkel Life I love you, all is groovy. - 59th Street Bridge Song Blessed are the meth drinkers, pot sellers, illusion dwellers. Oh Lord, why have you forsaken me? - Blessed The Smiths Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? - Still Ill Sting The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you. - Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot Supertramp There must be more to this life, it's time we did something right. Child of vision, won't you listen, find yourself a new ambition. - Child Of Vision Feel all you can, let your heart speak and guide you. Don't be afraid of the love deep inside you. - Know Who You Are Feel no sorrow, feel no shame, come tomorrow feel no pain. - Goodbye Stranger System of a Down Lie naked on the floor, and let the Messiah go through our souls. - Suite-Pee I want to fuck my way through the Garden, cause everyone needs a Mother fucker. - Suite-Pee Walk with me my little child to the forest of denial. Speak with me my only mind, walk with me until the time and make the forest turn to wine. You take the legend for a Fall, you saw the product, why can't you see that you are my child. Why don't you know that you are my mind, tell everyone that I am you. Take this promise to the end of you. - Forrest Making two possibilities a reality, predicting the future of things we all know, fighting off the diseased programming of centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence. Letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith, faith, faith. Science has failed our world, science has failed our Mother Earth. Spirit moves through all things. - Science Somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep, disorder, disorder, disorder. - Toxicity So you really want to think and stop, stop your eyes from flowing out. So you want the world to stop, rushing to watch your spirit fully drop, from the time you were a psycho, groupie, cocaine crazy. - Psycho Life is a waterfall. We're one in the river, and one again after the fall. Swimming through the void we hear the word. We lost ourselves, but we find it all. - Aerials I'm not angry. When you dance around a fire and you go off in an ecstatic frenzy of spirit and life and then you yell at the Gods so you can make your spirit heard - that's not anger. - Serj Tankian of System of a Down, Rolling Stone Interview Falafel - it's the closest thing to philosophy. - Serj Tankian, Rolling Stone Interview Van Morrison Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love. - Come Here My Love I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more. - Dweller Of The Threshold Violent Femmes When I say dance, you best dance motherfucker. - Dance, M.F., Dance Tom Waits I don't have a drinking problem, except when I can't get a drink. - Bad Liver And A Broken Heart The Waterboys Some say the Gods are just a myth, but guess who I've been dancing with! - The Return of Pan XTC Season cycle moving round and round, pushing life up from a cold dead ground. It's growing green, growing green. - Season Cycle Everybody says join our religion get to Heaven. I say no thanks, why bless my soul - I'm already there! - Season Cycle I won't believe in heaven and hell. No saints, no sinners, no devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crown. - Dear God Please to bend down for the one called the Green Man, for he wants to make you his Bride. Please to bend down for the one called the Green Man, forever to him you are tied. And you know for a million years he has been your lover, he'll be for a million more. - Green Man Frank Zappa Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.