"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."

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Source : "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

Nellie McKay

#Independent Quotes #Oasis Quotes #Radio Quotes

“Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.”
“The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.”
“Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.”

Source : Earl Weaver, Terry Pluto (1984). “Weaver on Strategy”, Macmillan Publishing Company
“El Bulli was created by 2,000 people that passed through it. And we didn't know that something big was happening. It was like a game in a way. You didn't really know how it was going to end up, and people who would leave, they would take a piece of it with them, but they would leave another piece behind.”
“I have kiddingly called it the 'Super Bowl,' which obviously can be improved upon.”
“That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.”
“Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.”

Source : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.8, University of Chicago Press
“Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect,”

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