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Music Journalist Inspirational Quotes (893)

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But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.
Caitlin Moran
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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
Isaac Marion
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But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards
Philip Larkin
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You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?
Isaac Marion
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
Philip Larkin
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I had written a book called Boston Boy some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.
Nat Hentoff
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All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
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There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.
Nat Hentoff
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
David Byrne
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They [FBI] had a lot of clippings, a lot of articles I'd written. And to me the - the funniest one was - I had done a piece for Playboy about J. Edgar Hoover.
Nat Hentoff
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
Philip Larkin
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When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
David Byrne
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I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.
Raquel Cepeda
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The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.
Michael Azerrad
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Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.
Studs Terkel
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Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.
Guy Oseary
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Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
Isaac Marion
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The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.
Paula Abdul
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
Philip Larkin
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
Philip Larkin
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A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.
Daniel Levitin
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I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
Caitlin Moran
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The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
William Christopher Handy
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Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.
Irving Townsend
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