"Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won."

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Source : "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

Colin Meloy

#Race Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Should Quotes

“Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.”
“In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.”
“Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.”

Source : Margaret Prescott Montague (1917). “Twenty Minutes of Reality: An Experience, with Some Illuminating Letters Concerning it”
“Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.”
“When faced with the choice, choose happy”
“It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but it took until 1872 for it to be repealed. During the Grover Cleveland administration, Congress enacted the Income Tax Act of 1894. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1895. It took the Sixteenth Amendment (1913) to make permanent what the Framers feared -- today's income tax.”
“May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.”
“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.”

Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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