Holly Near Quotes - Page 2

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• To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

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  Song, Men, Perspective

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• To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

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  People, Dinner, Surprise

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• Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

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  Music, Song, Ideas

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• It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

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  Music, Long, Singing

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• You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

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  Yeast, Bread, Ifs

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• Time has passed through me and become a song.

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  Song, Time

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.

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  Giving, Purpose, Given

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• Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

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  Sweet, Children, Sleep

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• Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

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  Song, Thinking, Expression

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• A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

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  Artist, People, Political

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• I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

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  Sweet, Life Is Hard, Bitterness

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• Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

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  Government, People, Community

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

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  Community, Stories, World

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• It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

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  Men, Thinking, Essentials

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• All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

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  Bridges, Water, Risk

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

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  Journey, Men, Class

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• My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Creativity, Work Out

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• I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

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  Children, Selfish, Believe

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• I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

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  Believe, Struggle, Silver Platter

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• If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.

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  Thinking, Singing, Way

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• I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

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  Perspective, Culture, Dominant

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• You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

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  Song, Men, World

  "Song: It Could Have Been Me (A Live Album)". 1974.

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