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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.
Nat Hentoff
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One of the worst elements of Obama's career, which no one talks about, is that he voted twice for a bill that said, if there is a botched abortion, if the child emerges from the womb alive, it should be okay to kill the baby. We have elected a president - twice! - who agrees with infanticide.
Nat Hentoff
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I needed a huge amount of energy to cope with my life. I had a huge amount of energy where stuff was concerned: it was as if all this unconscious material had been unleashed.
David Toop
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If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.
Kurt Loder
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I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.
Chuck Eddy
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I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.
Frank Hubbard
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I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
William Christopher Handy
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I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
William Christopher Handy
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With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
William Christopher Handy
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You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin
William Christopher Handy
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You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
William Christopher Handy
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My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
William Christopher Handy
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The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.
William Christopher Handy
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Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.
William Christopher Handy
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People use irony as a defense mechanism.
David Byrne
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It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self
Neil Strauss
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I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same
David Byrne
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Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot since then I knew about FDR I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic.
Nat Hentoff
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One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.
Isaac Marion
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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, I have to write some of my kind of songs now.
Alan Licht
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I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.
Alan Licht
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What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.
Alan Licht
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Chris Washburne is a superior hard bop player.
Scott Yanow
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Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
Nat Hentoff
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