The Residents

The Residents are an American band and art collective, active from 1969 to the present.

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Quotes

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978)

• What's a woman going to do but throw away her bread? Her feet are feeling funny as she lies beneath the bed. She reminisces of the pungent Adriatic Sea and then she crawls and counts her cans and twitches like a flea.[1]
  • "Lizard Lady"

Babyfingers (1979)

• Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell. Huh, what's that, dear? Huh? Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell. Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell? Yes, eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell. Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell. Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell. Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell. Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell. Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell. Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell! Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell! Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell! Eat exuding oinks upon and bleed decrepit broken bones at caustic spells of hell![2]
  • "Walter Westinghouse"

God in Three Persons (1988)

• And I also realize that that all our lives we love illusion, neatly caught between confusion, and the need to know we are alive.[3]
  • "Pain and Pleasure", nearly the last words of the album

Gingerbread Man (1995)

• They just don't get it! Vampires - vampires! It's all about vampires, but they're all vampires, too. It's all about sucking on something. Some suck scum, some suck tits and some just suck up. They all suck something.[4]
  • "The Sold-Out Artist"

Tweedles (2006)

• Everything is hungry. Everything wants more. Everything will eat you if you don't eat it, of course.
  Everything repeats itself. Everything's been done. Life is just a struggle between nothing and no one.[5]
  • "Life"

External links

• https://www.residents.com - "The Residents Official Site - The Residents"