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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the numbers don't lie. I think it's just because in the West crowds tend to be manufactured by commercial interesting, and they have, or at least should have, a responsibility for keeping people safe.
John Seabrook
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You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.
Neil Strauss
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Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.
David Toop
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A mother isn’t the person who births you it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
Raquel Cepeda
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I don't care how impossible it seems.
David Byrne
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If you do it properly, life is art, really.
Caitlin Moran
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Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a superb teacher. Her teaching pupils have ranged from Itzhak Perlman to Sting.
Nat Hentoff
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I love getting nervous, because it's also a form of excitement and it makes me feel alive, you know? I like that feeling. I've always liked that feeling. People who don't get nervous before they perform are no fun.
Paula Abdul
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For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.
Caitlin Moran
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Studs Terkel
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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
Isaac Marion
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By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
Chuck Eddy
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Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.
Philip Larkin
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Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.
David Toop
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I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
Steve Albini
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In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.
Neil Strauss
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What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.
Daniel Levitin
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We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.
Irving Townsend
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Why on earth have I, because I'm a woman, got to be nice to everyone?
Caitlin Moran
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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
Nat Hentoff
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Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
William Christopher Handy
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You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.
Studs Terkel
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I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.
Nat Hentoff
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When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff at his house, its almost always great.
Steve Albini
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