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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.
Guy Oseary
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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
Philip Larkin
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We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.
Bill Crow
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It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.
Caitlin Moran
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It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
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I'm not sure I ever try to make a case for the music. I mean, sometimes the music isn't even that good. I just tell the band's stories if I describe the music, it's to explain how it moved the overall story along.
Michael Azerrad
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I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal.
Nat Hentoff
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I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.
Nat Hentoff
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People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it.
Michael Azerrad
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Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.
Studs Terkel
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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
Philip Larkin
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Body odor is the window to the soul.
David Byrne
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The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.
Mike Sager
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I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.
David Byrne
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A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.
Caitlin Moran
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It's gonna be short if it's news put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.
Kurt Loder
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
Philip Larkin
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
Philip Larkin
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I have wished you something None of the others would.
Philip Larkin
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We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.
David Byrne
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When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave birth to one of my brothers sort of on the bedroom floor in front of all of us -you know, you see that women are fairly capable.
Caitlin Moran
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I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college
Steve Albini
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Could the purr be anything but contemplative?
Irving Townsend
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On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.
Studs Terkel
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