Robert Hilburn Quotes

One of my great frustrations for 35 years at the paper was the fact I couldn't play a record for the reader when I was writing about an artist. How can you describe the beauty of Emmylou Harris' voice without hearing it, the sensual lilt of a Duane Allman guitar solo without actually hearing it, or the growl of Johnny Rotten without hearing it?

Robert Hilburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

Andrew Motion

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The essential principles of the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules had been correctly formulated by the first Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Jacobus van't Hoff, as early as 1874.

John Cornforth

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Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Siri Hustvedt

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When you're involved with someone for a while, and they decided to express their feelings to the public - that's not my personal way of therapy, but I guess everyone takes split-ups differently.

Rita Ora

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I am proud to be an actor.

Rod Taylor

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I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.

Ruth Ware

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There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.

Mirai Nagasu

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It's inevitable: as I get older, I am going to get more wrinkles; it's something you have to accept.

Louise Nurding

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'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students' lives.

Clint Smith

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I've never gone to a bachelor party, where I didn't, no matter how much I loved the people there, hate them so much for their disgusting behavior.

Brett Gelman

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I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Anthony Bourdain

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I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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