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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.
Kate Thornton
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Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.
Isaac Marion
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It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.
David Byrne
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
Studs Terkel
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Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.
Nat Hentoff
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When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.
Philip Larkin
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
Philip Larkin
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All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.
Paula Abdul
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We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.
Nat Hentoff
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I guess you'd say, including the - what I just spoke about, the learning that liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be.
Nat Hentoff
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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
Philip Larkin
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I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped putting money into my pension.
Kate Thornton
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Nature was my kindergarten.
William Christopher Handy
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Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.
Vince Aletti
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Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
Philip Larkin
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A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
Whitney Balliett
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I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
Studs Terkel
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A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.
Neil Strauss
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I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
Studs Terkel
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No soul is bad enough for a fixed hell, or good enough for a fixed heaven, however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
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Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.
David Byrne
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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
Isaac Marion
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Those who ask for help are often those who have failed to do something for themselves.
Neil Strauss
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We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
David Byrne
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