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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.
David Byrne
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When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, How come you're just a waitress? I say, Don't you think you deserve being served by me?
Studs Terkel
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I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
Kurt Loder
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We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.
Neil Strauss
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What happened to the world was gradual. I've forgotten what it actually was, but I have faint, fetal memories of what it was like. A smoldering dread that never really caught fire till there wasn't much left to burn. Each sequential step surprised us. Then one day we woke up, and everything was gone.
Isaac Marion
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I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.
Isaac Marion
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The media ignores what is really going on.
Nat Hentoff
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I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
Boris Vian
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
Caitlin Moran
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You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
Philip Larkin
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It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over this is life or death for them.
Paula Abdul
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I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
David Byrne
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Akiko Tsuruga ranks as one of the top organists around today.
Scott Yanow
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Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.
Nat Hentoff
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He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.
Jerry Wexler
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The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.
Daniel Levitin
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
Caitlin Moran
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Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.
Scott Yanow
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A bike is the world's most used form of transportation
David Byrne
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Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
David Byrne
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Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.
Caitlin Moran
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Stop. Breathe those useless breaths. Drop this piece of life you’re holding to your lips. Where are you? How long have you been here? Stop now. You have to stop. Squeeze shut your stinging eyes, and take another bite.
Isaac Marion
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I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
Philip Larkin
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I agree with the sentiment that it's probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren't so than to not believe something - you know, to believe in a lie.
Daniel Levitin
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