Lyor Quotes

#1. If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

Alison Weir

#2. She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream ...

Joseph Conrad

#3. Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

William Barclay

#4. Content that's generated out of America, whether it be film or music, has, in my opinion, much greater impact in sustaining our credibility and our place as a cultural capital. This is our great export.

Lyor Cohen

#5. When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.

Sophie Kinsella

#6. I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

Lyor Cohen

#7. Maybe he wasn't the balloon who'd been cut loose, but the one who'd untied himself from the rail.

Joey W. Hill

#8. Regardless of which path you take, if it's truly your path, you'll find your super powers there. You

Chelsea Walker Flagg

#9. As with so much else, she was convinced that an exception would be made in her case.

Margaret Atwood

#10. It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try to answer every one of these mails and phone calls because, after all, it's not a violation of physics to travel from one star system to another.

Seth Shostak

#11. Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend.

Lyor Cohen

#12. I like moments of staleness and mildew, simply because it creates the lane for change.

Lyor Cohen

#13. Unlike societies that employed baroque procedures for distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate children, the Mongols accepted all children as equal. No child could be born without the consent of the Eternal Blue Sky. No earthly law or custom could presume to declare the child illegitimate.

Jack Weatherford

#14. Rap now is multi-generational, which has its own issues. My son is a big Cudi fan, but he does not like talking to me about Kid Cudi.

Lyor Cohen

#15. The primary part of the weekend is centered around my children, and I have to be flexible. To call an audible is to be liquid enough to understand that at any given time you have to be a chauffeur or a chaperone, especially for my 12-year-old and whatever her plans are.

Lyor Cohen

#16. I used to have a gym in the house. I thought that was a fantastic luxury.

Lyor Cohen

#17. Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.

James Lovelock

#18. My week is full-tilt boogie. I wake up every morning, and the singular thought in my head is that maybe today is the day that I'm going to find an artist who is so amazing, an artist who will change pop culture. I'm in hot pursuit, always.

Lyor Cohen