Holly Near's Quotes

Born: 1949-06-06
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Holly Near
When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
Tags: Hope, Songs, ThemselvesWhen the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
Tags: Stage, State, StudentsWhite middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
Tags: Journey, Longer, MenYou can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.
Tags: Leave, Rise, WonIt's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.
Tags: Best, Good, SingerWhy do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
Tags: Show, Why, WrongIf you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
Tags: Forward, Mistakes, WisdomWe who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
Tags: Keep, Ourselves, TruthI like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.
Tags: Hard, Life, SweetI'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.
Tags: Allowing, Culture, DominantPart of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
Tags: Artist, Hurt, WillingThe women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
Tags: Able, Ways, WomenTo be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.
Tags: Pain, Real, SometimesWhen we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
Tags: Blessed, Learn, MistakesMusic can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.
Tags: Music, Put, SleepA lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.
Tags: Afraid, Political, WordI don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.
Tags: Keep, Silver, StruggleIf I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.
Tags: Sing, SingingIt is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.
Tags: Men, Start, WomenLanguage is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
Tags: Expression, Food, LanguageLeaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
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My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
Tags: Creativity, Political, WorkMy parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
Tags: Life, Parents, ThoughtMy parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.
Tags: City, Labor, ParentsOnce women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
Tags: Give, Once, WomenPart of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.
Tags: Care, Thinking, Time