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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.
Kurt Loder
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I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.
Michael Azerrad
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
Philip Larkin
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Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.
Isaac Marion
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Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.
Paula Abdul
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[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read Darkness at Noon.
Nat Hentoff
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When I talk to girls, they go, 'I'm not a feminist.' And I say: 'What? You don't want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations : you are a feminist.'
Caitlin Moran
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I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.
David Byrne
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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
Studs Terkel
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I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.
Nat Hentoff
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I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
Studs Terkel
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My attitude was always, if you are a huge metal fan, the more dedicated and more obsessive a metal fan you are, then why wouldn't you like more metal, widen your net, and include hair metal?
Martin Popoff
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
Caitlin Moran
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No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.
Daniel Levitin
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[My wife] has some investments and stuff.
Nat Hentoff
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Life is first boredom, then fear.
Philip Larkin
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Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.
David Toop
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When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about any one thing. Specific fears have become irrelevant. We've replace them with a smothering blanket far worse.
Isaac Marion
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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
David Byrne
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If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
David Byrne
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When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.
Paula Abdul
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That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground
Neil Strauss
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So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it’s a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They always go and try to co-opt what they can’t own. They try to co-opt authenticity and turn it into something boring.
Legs McNeil
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To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
Philip Larkin
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