Holly Near Quotes - Page 2

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

Time has passed through me and become a song.

Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.

When I am willing, all sound is available to me.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...