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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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Always answer the phone. You never know if it's a hit calling.
Jerry Wexler
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I'd just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of that I was completely shattered. I had a book that I'd just finished that had been produced through a really, really terrible period, but I had managed to finish it.
David Toop
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I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.
Neil Strauss
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I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.
Nat Hentoff
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Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.
Philip Larkin
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I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.
David Byrne
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The world isn't logical, it's a song.
David Byrne
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I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
David Byrne
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I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.
Raquel Cepeda
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By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum
Steve Albini
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I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.
Paula Abdul
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If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.
Paula Abdul
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One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?
Philip Larkin
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You just wanted to be normal. It wasn't even being beautiful. I just wanted to be smooth and thin and have, and you know, have beautiful glossy hair and lovely clothes and be able to walk in heels. And I thought that once I did all of that stuff that my life would begin.
Caitlin Moran
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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
Nat Hentoff
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The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.
Paula Abdul
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Women are feminist by default.
Caitlin Moran
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No praise, no blame. Just so.
Isaac Marion
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I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.
Nat Hentoff
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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
David Byrne
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The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that the abundance of books is a distraction. Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly.
Daniel Levitin
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It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.
Isaac Marion
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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
Philip Larkin
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A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.
Neil Strauss
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