Terry Teachout Quotes

No cowboy songs, no hoedowns. It's a more serious piece. Yet every bar of 'Appalachian Spring' is clear, clean, tonal, intelligible - great music that anyone can grasp at first hearing.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1956

Topics

MusicGreatSpringSeriousClean

I like to play football, read some books, study.

Andrew Luck

FootballPlayStudyBooksLikeSome

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

Max Stirner

ChildKnowObjectHowDoesEnnui

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

Jeffrey Brown

WorkBalanceHelpSeriousMoreOut

The Obama administration, seemingly without any concern or worry, funneled money around U.S. law through foreign central banks to provide a state sponsor of terrorism with $400 million in blood money for American hostages.

Jeff Duncan

MoneyLawAmericanWorryTerrorism

I'm not the neatest person in the kitchen by any means.

Amy Brenneman

KitchenPersonMeansAny

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

Stan Brakhage

LoveMeBeingWorriesI Love

My favorite thing to do with my iPod was to shuffle my entire music collection and marvel at what songs came next. Sometimes the segues would be so perfect that it seemed a genius deejay was behind the wheel.

Steven Levy

MusicGeniusPerfectSometimesWheel

Cudi should be a top tier artist... I think he fathered a lot of the style of music. He's a good influence and a good help.

Travis Scott

GoodMusicStyleInfluenceThinkHe

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

Robyn Davidson

PaintingWritingLovedCareerWay

When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.

Mary Berry

FoodParentsMeIsolationGlassUp

If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.

Jose Gonzalez

HistoryPeopleThinkingProblemYou

Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.

Don Lemon

BabyPlanningYouJust BecauseMean

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