Music Journalist

🇺🇸W. C. Handy

Music

1873–1958

"I think America concedes that has sprung from the negro. When we take these things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."

"A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste."

🇬🇧Lionel Tertis

Education

1876–1975

"from a tremendously vital white-hot fortissimo down to a trembling, limpid pianissimo so distant that it was difficult to sense whence the mysterious sound could be coming"

🇬🇧Eric Hobsbawm

Politics

Socialism

1917–2012

"o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so."

🇬🇧Donald Tovey

Music

1875–1940

"The Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven must always be among the choicest possessions of all who love music and especially of those who make music their main object and study."

Barry Mazor

Journalism

"“Celine Dion is investing primary narcissism with a voice"

"You must know the physiology behind the art. All the ‘pink clouds’ in the world won’t help you move through the passaggio."

🇺🇸Nat Hentoff

Journalism

1925–2017

"I'm always intrigued at how few people understand that free speech encompasses a little more than the speech you like."

🇺🇸David Byrne

Music

b. 1952

"It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off."

🇺🇸Isaac Marion

Literature

b. 1981

"There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it."

"Bridge the gap with and extend the olive branch to people from past generations, because you don’t know everything."

🇺🇸Studs Terkel

Literature

1912–2008

"I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated."