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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.
Nat Hentoff
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The voting booth joint is a great leveler the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
David Byrne
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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne
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Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.
Neil Strauss
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[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
Nat Hentoff
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I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.
Nat Hentoff
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What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.
Marc Myers
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We live in ugly times.
David Byrne
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We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.
Raquel Cepeda
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People shared everything: information, equipment, their floors, whatever. There was strength in unity.
Michael Azerrad
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Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.
Kurt Loder
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I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.
Nat Hentoff
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Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
Paula Abdul
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Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.
Michael Azerrad
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Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
Studs Terkel
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[My father] was very impressed when he saw Death of a Salesman, I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.
Nat Hentoff
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Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.
Geoff Dyer
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Feminism has had exactly the same problem that political correctness has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.
Caitlin Moran
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I think it's important to remember how quickly sports popularity can change.
Kelefa Sanneh
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Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.
Andy Greenwald
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Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
Studs Terkel
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One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.
Geoff Dyer
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And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.
Kurt Loder
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