Aesop Rock > Quotes

“If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.”
― Aesop Rock

“Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman, you only call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that pussy.”
― Aesop Rock

“I'm just tryin to be somebody I can talk to in the morning with a smile.”
― Aesop Rock, The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow

“I have been completely unable to maintain any semblance of relationship on any level I have been a bastard to the people who have actively attempted to deliver me from peril I have been acutely undeserving of the ear that listen up and lip that kissed me on the temple I have been accustomed to a stubborn disposition that admits it wish it's history disassembled I have been a hypocrite in sermonizing tolerance while skimming for a ministry to pretzel I have been unfairly resentful of those I wish that acted different when the bidding was essential I have been a terrible communicator prone to isolation over sympathy for devils I have been my own worse enemy since the very genesis of rebels”
― Aesop Rock

“When they ask how you’re feeling, you tell them you’re feeling like something important died screaming. You tell them you’re feeling like something even more important arrived breathing, something you should probably try feeding. When they ask how you’re living, you tell them you’re living like something important died hissing. You tell them you’re living like something even more important arrived giving, something you should probably try willing.”
― Aesop Rock

“It's a beautiful thing, to my people who keep an impressive wingspan, even when the cubicle shrink.”
― Aesop Rock

“The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.”
― Aesop Rock

“Heartless harvest of mine, I'm tired of pissin benediction.
Maybe it ain't healthy, but sometimes I'd rather burn then let you help me.”
― Aesop Rock

“I remember science class
if chemistry could silence the lions laugh I'd be fine”
― Aesop Rock

“Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin
But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.”
― Aesop Rock, The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow

“Sleep and sleep well; sleep with a sacred array of fevers, 
Wake as a pertinent version of a pipe dreamer.”
― Aesop Rock

“And that’s unevenly rendered to those who grew up thinking faith was a surrender of reason but not a reason to surrender.”
― Aesop Rock

“Smash cut to a smoke-bombed quarantine,
Guards like 'all signs correlate with sorcery',
It's more a dormant cell of valor as awoken by the smell of sordid power and defecting shortly after,
Fist bump dry land, brackish, cat nap 15, back to swiss-cheese the flagship,
Uh, blue in the menacing grip of a day for which you're manifestly unfit.”
― Aesop Rock

“There is admittedly an incredible mystique to meddling in the reason a city won’t sleep.”
― Aesop Rock

“The bear cage is empty?”
― Aesop Rock

“marshmellows over magma from the mantle has been cancelled, & how adequately can you scaffold?' -- Marble Cake”
― Aesop Rock, The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow

“You can't be cooler than the corners where you source all your parts”
― Aesop Rock

“And when the cutters of the pie throw their summers in the sky, no love lost baby, the future is so bright.”
― Aesop Rock

“I get awkwardly sturdy with a frigid liquid backbone. I get swept in the pressure cooker, tryin' to paddle back home...i'm gonna be a big bang, gotta be, never bottle me up in a probably...i huddle in a tunnel of big dreams, i think big things. I'm gonna burn w/ this little light of mine & a prime concern to earn thanks, I'm gonna be a Big Bang...' --Big Bang”
― Aesop Rock, The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow

“Stay true like a wolf wearing wolf pants.”
― Aesop Rock

“The flavor of a large yellow onion, freshly peeled and sliced, is one of my favorite things in the world.”
― Aesop Rock

“I always find that just after dinner, when it’s still light out but beginning to get dark is a great time to find [frogs]. They are fun to play with, and you can place them in a jar with some holes in the top for closer inspection. Also a night time hunt is always fun, flashlights, etc.”
― Aesop Rock

“I find the act of searching for, catching and releasing frogs to be awesomely rewarding, and really one of my favorite activities to do since I was young, scouring my backyard with my brothers. They make for fascinating creatures, and I think catching frogs will always be something I find relaxing.”
― Aesop Rock

“I used to catch frogs in my backyard in Long Island. I don’t know, maybe they were toads. It doesn’t matter.”
― Aesop Rock

“Zelda was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, a total genius of a game designer. I have found very few other action/rpg’s really match up to the immersive experience that the Zelda games offer.”
― Aesop Rock

“I'm a muckin' gem in the refuse even when the world's ending - what the F is your excuse?”
― Aesop Rock

“Cooking an onion drains everything interesting about its taste and texture, and propels it into the world of mush.”
― Aesop Rock

“We should be eating onions raw because they are better that way. This is not a matter of opinion.”
― Aesop Rock

“I am of the opinion that, in most cases, onions should be eaten in their raw form. Why? Because they are magnificent.”
― Aesop Rock

“I had a great aunt, Leona, who would sit and eat raw onions with me like apples as a kid. She would pour salt on the table cloth, dip it in and take a bite. What a genius.”
― Aesop Rock