Onderwerp: Inspirerende quotes/songteksten

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Het lijkt mij leuk om inspirerende quotes en/of songteksten te posten die inspirerend zijn om een bijvoorbeeld een grote zeilreis te ondernemen! Hierbij de eerste van een legendarische man, wie volgt?

Groet, Hans

"Learn to swim"

Tool, Ænema

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain

"Nice? It's the only thing," said the Water Rat solemnly as he leant forward for his stroke. "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing," he went on dreamily: "messing—about—in—boats" - The Wind in the Willows.

www.dropbox.com/s/e6rjfa4icgoh...-%20Zeeziek.mp3?dl=0

www.dropbox.com/s/ti8hq52a2ruo...-%20Grietje.mp3?dl=0

Voor de solisten

"Roam" (B52's) Niet hoogstaand, maar wordt er wel altijd erg vrolijk van.

"Toen wij uit Rotterdam vertrokken", geeft altijd een goed gevoel

I reject all facile labels for myself, and “masochist” even more than “loner” or “suicidal.” One does not come out here to suffer or die, but to live. And I have never been more alive. Pain is the price of my obsession; intensity and pride the rewards.

That any explanations are necessary, that adventure is no longer understood instinctively, that people have to ask, Why?, is proof of the decline of our civilization.

Webb Chiles Storm Passage

I'm never gonna work another day in my life
The gods told me to relax
They said I'm gonna be fixed up right
I'm never gonna work another day in my life
I'm way too busy powertripping
But I'm gonna shed you some light

Powertrip van Monster Magnet. A.s. vrijdag in Utrecht te zien. Live met nadruk op hun oudere platen. Powertrip gaan ze zeker spelen!

Ik wilde niet ondankbaar lijken door deze kans voorbij te laten gaan


Piracy's a crime and crime doesn't pay,
And we go home poor at the end of the day.
But I'd rather live my life in rags
Than be taped to a desk with a wife that's a hag.

We live each day like there's nothing to lose,
But a man has needs and that need is booze.
They say all the best things in life are free
So give all your beer and your rum to me.

We are here to drink your beer
And steal your rum at the point of a gun
Your alcohol to us will fall
'Cause we are here to drink your beer

Van een ongekende poëtische schoonheid Sloe Gin, ik ben er even helemaal stil van.

(ben het er overigens niet helemaal mee eens, door dat vastgetaped zitten aan een bureau hoef ik m'n alcohol niet te jatten maar dat koop ik gewoon. Wel minder avontuurlijk misschien maar soit. En mijn vrouw is geen hag. Nou ja of wel, maar dan een hele knappe)

Rob10 schreef :
De conclusie van die laatste zin is wel een tikkeltje over the top.
Had Webb Chiles last van zelfoverschatting?

boarderbas schreef :
Haha. Mijn maat heeft ooit nog bij dat nummer van die oranje armzwembandjes op het podium gegooid toen we bij een concert van Tool waren. Helemaal voor naar Groningen gereden! 2002

Voor de twijfelaar :
The Clash - Should I Stay or should I go

De tekst zelf is verder niet zo van toepassing....maarru...vond de titel wel leuk.

Vinni

zeezeilen:

Niet Klagen maar Dragen.

En bidden om kracht.

"Reaching the destination is not always the purpose of the journey. "

Van wie het origineel is weet ik niet, maar ik vind het passend.

Het is net wat subtieler dan "De weg is het doel."

Boeddha
Goethe

Als de pont zo lang was als de breedte van de stroom,
Kon hij blijven liggen, zei mij laatst een econoom

Drs P, Heen en weer

Mooie posts hoor!


True North (Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz; Bad Religion)

Unrepentant vagabond,
Plot the new coordinates and cast the map aside.
Now I gotta ramble on,
Navigate the pitfalls and cross the great divide.

The mapmaker's legend has direction and a key.
He set the declination, but what good is it to me?

I can't see the rationality.
The world's not my responsibility.
And happiness isn't there for me,
But maybe I'll inch closer to the source
When I find true north.
With or without a friend.
Keep searching till the end.

Testing fate and cheating death,
No one ever told me it was gonna be like this.
Contemplate the randomness,
When the mind is willing, it gets downright perilous.

Overburdened, underwhelmed, their ethical decrees.
That's your moral compass, but what good is it to me?

I can't see the rationality.
The world's not my responsibility.
And happiness isn't there for me,
But maybe I'll inch closer to the source
When I find true north.
With or without a friend.
Keep searching till the end.
When I find true north.

"Highwayman"
(originally by Jimmy Webb)

[Willie Nelson:]
I was a highwayman
Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
But I am still alive

[Kris Kristofferson:]
I was a sailor
I was born upon the tide
And with the sea I did abide
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still

[Waylon Jennings:]
I was a dam builder
Across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around
I'll always be around, and around and around and around and around...

[Johnny Cash:]
I'll fly a starship
Across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again...

Geweldig mooi liedje!

These things you keep
You'd better throw them away
You wanna turn your back
On your soulless days
Once you were tethered
And now you are free
Once you were tethered
Well now you are free
That was the river
This is the sea!

(Waterboys, This is the Sea)

“It’s the lightning flash that guides a man. You must lay your course in the blue dazzle, then follow it in the dark, and when you come to the end, it always lightens again. Don’t stand still, staring through the gloom, and then try to walk while the lightning lasts, because you won’t get anywhere.” Rex Ellingwood Beach

Dit had Confusius kunnen zeggen. Ouderdom dient geen enkel belang, tenzij je een stuk kaas bent...