Robert Hilburn Quotes

What's amazing is how rock n' roll lasted. It started losing its commercial power in the late 1990s. But think of swing, which we think of as this big music before rock n' roll. It only lasted five years in total. So, rock going 50 years is amazing, because young people want new things.

Robert Hilburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.

Joe Bonamassa

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I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullies.

Joe Wurzelbacher

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When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

Jenny Lawson

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By exciting citizens about the new digital opportunity, breaking down silos of competing groups to form a truly open innovation ecosystem and shifting day-to-day resources to focus on big long-term investments for the future, countries can ensure that they break through and bridge the digital gap.

John T. Chambers

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I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

Sonja Sohn

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I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient.

Shiri Appleby

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Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

Tony Visconti

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I'm not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it's up to me, and I go straight to the audience.

Rita Rudner

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I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

Roderick MacKinnon

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Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

Michael Jordan

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John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

Brenda Lee

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Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

Annie Jacobsen

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