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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for [The New Republic ], I would feel diminished because the owner had done such a thing [fire a journalist].
Nat Hentoff
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Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.
Daniel Levitin
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If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.
Paula Abdul
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The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.
Eric Hobsbawm
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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
Philip Larkin
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As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.
Philip Larkin
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I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.
Michael Azerrad
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I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's Life of Christ.
Nat Hentoff
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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
Philip Larkin
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You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.
Kurt Loder
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The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.
Jonathan Goldman
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Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
Paula Abdul
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I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.
Paula Abdul
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The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.
Nat Hentoff
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As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.
Michael Azerrad
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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
Philip Larkin
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Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.
Isaac Marion
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
David Byrne
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
Isaac Marion
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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
David Byrne
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I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world I belonged to her, Mother Earth.
Raquel Cepeda
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There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.
Michael Azerrad
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One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.
Scott Yanow
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A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.
Steve Albini
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