70 Quotes by Holly Near

It doesn’t take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

You can’t just leave out one part; the bread won’t rise if the yeast isn’t there.

I’m not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

You can kill a man but not a song when it’s sung the whole world ’round.

It’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.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children.

My parents encouraged thought. You’ll get through life better if you learn how to think.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they’ll eat it.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they’ll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.