Ian Svenonius Quotes

#1. We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

Ian Svenonius

#2. The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

Norman Granz

#3. At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed?

Steve Almond

#4. As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do.

Maureen Lipman

#5. My imagination is a twisted place.

Taylor Swift

#6. What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no art culture, and we've long considered politics nebbish-y and hopelessly unsexy. So a lot of what would be considered political activism is channeled into cultural work.

Ian Svenonius

#7. If your moon sign is in Leo, you have a lot of empathy for Leos. You empathize with their approach and their aims and their aura.

Ian Svenonius

#8. I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Paul Scofield

#9. Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#10. In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological way. There's this idea that we're all normal joes, and that creating a persona onstage or having schtick is somehow false and misleading and evil.

Ian Svenonius

#11. I ever needed them. He'd taken my weapons,

Sarah J. Maas

#12. When a capitalist looks at the river, all they can think about is, "How can I pollute this river and destroy it and make money from it?"

Ian Svenonius

#13. Cool thing about Fidel Castro is that the CIA and the mafia - which are both terrible organizations that tried to murder him again and again - haven't succeeded.

Ian Svenonius

#14. They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

Helmut Newton

#15. I understand politics and I know there's gonna be a lot of verbage.

George W. Bush

#16. A lot of people come to America all the time for economic opportunities. This country is this huge work farm and you can make a lot of money here.

Ian Svenonius

#17. If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're escaping the capitalism and degradation of economic imperialism. We don't call them political refugees; we call them unfortunate people.

Ian Svenonius

#18. Relax," Lucian said dryly. "Bricker will not leave without me. The SUV is - "
"What?" Basil asked when his brother paused with his arm half raised, shock crossing his features.
"The little shit just drove away without me," Lucian said with amazement.

Lynsay Sands

#19. Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile
except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government.

Ian Svenonius

#20. I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring to see people snub their noses at the American empire and succeed.

Ian Svenonius

#21. To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

Maureen Howard

#22. There's nothing quite like the sound of chainsaws over morning coffee.

Michael P. Naughton

#23. Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

Anais Nin