Ellen Willis Quotes

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

Ellen Willis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1941 - November 9, 2006

Topics

ArtBluesRockOverSeemBeen

The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.

Jeffrey Osborne

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Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

Jean-Marc Vallee

MusicMeIdeasFlyWingsRock

I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots.

Michael J. Saylor

ThinkWillBecomeSoftwareGoing

I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

Tom Selleck

TimePoliticalLongLong TimeGet

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Romesh Gunesekera

PeopleWorldFictionDifferentWho

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

Russel Honore

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I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.

Ming-Na Wen

DayMeOne DayAskAlwaysStar

I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.

Lucy Punch

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Being a teenager is complicated.

Janet Varney

ComplicatedBeing A TeenagerBeing

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

Jonah Goldberg

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If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.

Derek Jeter

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I was always a happy kid. I'd play the piano fairly well. I did all sorts of things fairly well. But who the hell wants to be happy all the time? It's a miserable state to be in permanently. Can you imagine how dreary that would be?

Christopher Plummer

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