Nellie McKay famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.
-- Nellie McKay

#Culture #Sadistic #Form
I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.
-- Nellie McKay

#Musical #Style #Kind
I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.
-- Nellie McKay

#Phones #People #Admiring
I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.
-- Nellie McKay

#Art #Trying #May
I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.
-- Nellie McKay

#Play #Being Ignored #The End Of The Day
Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.
-- Nellie McKay

#Independent #Oasis #Radio
I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.
-- Nellie McKay

#People #Feminism #Care
Less money for public media means less access to the arts.
-- Nellie McKay

#Art #Mean #Media
You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.
-- Nellie McKay

#Dream #Strive #Criticize
You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.
-- Nellie McKay

#Band #Marching Band
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.
-- Nellie McKay

#Desire #Needs #Subconscious
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.
-- Nellie McKay

#Brain #Hierarchy #Singers
There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.
-- Nellie McKay

#Sides
I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.
-- Nellie McKay

#Nice #Thinking #Wish
I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.
-- Nellie McKay

#Focus #Done #Kind
Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.
-- Nellie McKay

#Love Is #Fleeting #Emotion
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
-- Nellie McKay

#New York #Cities #Use

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