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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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... Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged in Southern Comfort and cured with Kahlua and milk. It is a voice that cuts you like a razor, but you can still hear the innocence in it, a claim to purity that soars out of the garbage of her throat, carrying evil harmonies.
Al Aronowitz
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George Harrison is one of the sweetest, kindest and most considerate men I know.
Al Aronowitz
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The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
Studs Terkel
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
Eddie Trunk
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I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of Dynasty and Dallas. And I just found that terrifying.
Caitlin Moran
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
Studs Terkel
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It's getting harder and harder to know, when you find things on the Internet, what you can believe and what you can't.
Daniel Levitin
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Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.
Philip Larkin
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My favorite songs change every year.
Isaac Marion
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The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.
Nat Hentoff
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Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
William Christopher Handy
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I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.
Studs Terkel
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How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
Studs Terkel
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I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques
Steve Albini
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When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.
Caitlin Moran
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My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
Eddie Trunk
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There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.
Paula Abdul
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As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'
Nat Hentoff
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Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.
Geoff Dyer
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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
Studs Terkel
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One of my favorite things about my job is getting to hang around with people who really know what they're talking about.
Kelefa Sanneh
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I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.
Isaac Marion
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I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.
Isaac Marion
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
Studs Terkel
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