"Only a tiny portion of music history involves……" — Russell Smith
"Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form."
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39 Quotes by Russell Smith
Russell Smith has 39 quotes on this site.
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is…
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I would rather be nuts than unattractive.
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There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.
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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the…
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The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a…
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The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age…
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Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without…
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Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There…
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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future…
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Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who…
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Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget…
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My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or…
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode…
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in…
— Aristotle
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
— Aristotle
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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
— Julian Assange
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
— Antonin Artaud
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's…
— Margaret Atwood
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