Music Journalism Quotes

#1. Paste Magazine really embodies all that's left of a true independent thought and expression in music journalism in the states right now. Please support the cause and lift them up to keep them moving forward.

Shawn Mullins

#2. That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

Rachel Bilson

#3. I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.

French Montana

#4. Companies with new technologies are free to disrupt almost any industry they choose - journalism, television, music, manufacturing - so long as they don't disrupt the financial operating system churning beneath it all. Hell,

Douglas Rushkoff

#5. Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#6. Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."

Tony Hsieh

#7. I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

Elizabeth Hand

#8. It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

Paul Watson

#9. Man was not designed to eat pills and powders and all the other chemicals they pump you full of. We were meant to live off the land in harmony with it. Not in some safety bubble.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#10. Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

Frank Zappa

#11. Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads.

Douglas Rushkoff

#12. Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

Jo Walton

#13. Newer and better ... healing isn't about getting back to the old, it's about going to that next level and experiencing what God has in store for you.

Heather Bixler

#14. As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films is much more complicated, because you have image, sound and music to work with, not simply words.

Nancy Kates

#15. I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

Lil' Wayne

#16. I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering.

Brother Ali

#17. The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#18. Grover: It's a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that's because he's laughing at me.

Rick Riordan

#19. We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

Orison Swett Marden

#20. Jaime, dear, forgive me, but I don't think you are man enough to take care of my Cass. She's a special kind of difficult.

Mercy Celeste

#21. After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

Maureen O'Hara

#22. Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.

Ellen Willis