Over the past four months, I have self-diagnosed myself as a “Pink Floyd” fanatic. Anytime I get the opportunity to listen to music and even during times in class when I shouldn’t be, I have their hypnotic melodies blasting. Unique beauty and meaning are embedded into every one of their songs, making boring walks to class a newfound quest for analytical enlightenment.

When read aloud their poetic lyrics can be truly internalized, entrancing readers with their ideas regarding conformity, government, relationships, war, personal crisis’, dreams, time, drug abuse and anything else under the sun. For hardened fans to enjoy and new fans about to revolutionize the way they view music, here are some of Pink Floyd's best quotes to get your brain churning; I won’t analyze them for you, half the fun is figuring out your own meaning in each song.

1. “Sheep," Animals

What do you get for pretending the danger's not real

Meek and obedient you follow the leader

Down well-trodden corridors into the valley of steel

What a surprise!

A look of terminal shock in your eyes

Now things are really what they seem

No, this is no bad dream

2. “Thin Ice," The Wall

If you should go skating

On the thin ice of modern life

Dragging behind you the silent reproach

Of a million tear stained eyes

3. "The Final Cut," The Final Cut

And if I show you my dark side

Will you still hold me tonight?

And if I open my heart to you

And show you my weak side

What would you do?

4. “Learning to Fly," A Momentary Lapse of Reason

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings

Unheeded warnings I thought I thought of everything

No navigator to find my way home

Unladened, empty and turned to stone

5. "Breathe (In the Air)," Dark Side of the Moon

Run, rabbit run

Dig that hole, forget the sun

And when at last the work is done

Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one

6. “Dogs," Animals

You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to

So that when they turn their backs on you

You'll get the chance to put the knife in

7. “Wish You Were Here," Wish You Were Here

We're just two lost souls

Swimming in a fish bowl

Year after year

8. “Comfortably numb," The Wall

When I was a child

I caught a fleeting glimpse

Out of the corner of my eye

I turned to look but it was gone

I cannot put my finger on it now

The child is grown

The dream is gone

I have become comfortably numb

9. "Time," Dark Side of the Moon

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun