"The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation."

-- Peter Yarrow

#Song Quotes #Issues Quotes #Generations Quotes

“You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way. You can't have one without the other. So I think the rebellion is reflected in the audience, but at the same time, the artist has to have that passion too. And I think once you're a fan for life, you feed each other's sense of passion and rage and whatnot. You really can't have one without the other.”
“I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ***** as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.”
“Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.”
“I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.”
“Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.”
“A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.”
“We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.”
“It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.”

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