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- Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way.…
- We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
- But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest,…
- Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail…
- It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never…
- On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped…
- That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans…
- When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio…
- You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from…
- There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.
- A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
- I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the…
- The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It…
- I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in…
- I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a…
- Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.
- The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used…
- One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though they…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt