Robert Hilburn Quotes

His belief in the power of music to convey ideas - not just entertain - has filtered down to musicians in every field, from alt-rock to hip-hop, from Bruce Springsteen and U2 to Arcade Fire and Kanye West. Popular music is different because of Johnny Cash.

Robert Hilburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1939

Topics

MusicPowerFireIdeasMusicians

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

Jewel

ReligionComfortNeverOrganizedAny

The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.

John Gurdon

WorkHopeValueSupportResearch

I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

Andy Kindler

PeopleI CanUpsetOpenUpGet

I'm a big Knicks fan, and I will tell a professional basketball player that they suck because they didn't do what I wanted them to do.

Michael Che

BasketballProfessionalWillTell

My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art.

Amor Towles

ArtChallengeDayJobFunArtist

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

Shinichi Suzuki

WorkArtPersonalityManPlaceSome

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

Tony Blair

LifeDecisionWalkTryingYouUp

It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color 'criminals' and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.

Michelle Alexander

JusticePeopleColorDiscrimination

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

Molly Ivins

FunnyMeAlwaysOptimistBeenThing

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

Lisa Ling

EnoughEatChinaSkinnyUsedJust

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Bono

MarriagePeopleThinkMadnessMore

I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response.

Alison Brie

GoodPastCoolThinkYouBack

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