Quotes About Yearning

In my younger days, I used to visit record shops and covet boxed sets of Beethoven symphonies, Wagner operas, Bach cantatas, Mozart piano concertos. Only rarely was I able to find the money for such luxuries.

All of us can't wait to get out there whatever way.

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.

I waited for my first kiss.

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

The key thing about LCD Soundsystem is that people always wanted this band to exist. For years, it was glaringly obvious that a band like this should exist, and people were impatiently waiting for them to show up.

I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.

I wish I could come home to a life that looks like a TV show. I wish I could see my television family waiting for me, where no one fights and no one screams, no one lies and no one leaves.

I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.

I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

Have you ever walked into a store and wanted to leave your old life behind and become the person you would be if your life was full of the things in that store? I hadn't until I walked into At Land in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

I have the hots for Ben Affleck. I hope to meet him.

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

I remember feeling incredibly bored all the time, and I spent a lot of my time dreaming about what was going on in London, and fantasising about being there.

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.

I remember after a year in London, I was at an MTV party and a friend saying to me that it was such a brave thing to do to come over to London by myself. I never thought it was a big deal. It was my dream. I am so independent. It is just ridiculous. I am too independent for my own good.

So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.

The day breaks not, it is my heart.