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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.
Daniel Levitin
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Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.
Paula Abdul
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Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.
Raquel Cepeda
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Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
David Byrne
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When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.
Paula Abdul
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We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.
Caitlin Moran
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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
Studs Terkel
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There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.
Raquel Cepeda
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My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining.
Joel McIver
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The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
David Byrne
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Life truly is precious. Gather every moment of it into your arms & embrace it.
Paula Abdul
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Under the British healthcare system, there is a commission that decides whether or not, based on your age and physical condition, the government should continue to pay for your health.
Nat Hentoff
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There's no law that says anybody has to do an interview.
Michael Azerrad
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Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.
Whitney Balliett
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Fear makes you docile.
Neil Strauss
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I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.
Philip Larkin
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However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, evil.
Nat Hentoff
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
Isaac Marion
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Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people—Like pig latin or books by Thomas Pynchon, confusion is one of its hallmark traits.
Andy Greenwald
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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
Studs Terkel
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In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.
Studs Terkel
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Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.
Philip Larkin
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I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.
David Byrne
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Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
David Byrne
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