16 Quotes by Marc Edwards

We teach aspirational ethics. What I teach my students is, You’re born heroic. I go into these animal studies, and heroism is actually in our nature. What you have to do is make sure that the system doesn’t change you, that our educational system doesn’t teach you to be willfully blind and to forget your aspirations, because that’s the default position.

Be comfortable with who you are’, reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they’d never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

There’s nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

You can’t get away from who you are I guess.

Ideally, what you would like to have eventually is such a unique and identifiable brand that when someone says ‘Indiana State University,’ they know exactly what that means. And that takes a long time coming.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.