Uncoerced Def Quotes

#1. Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

Peter Ralston

#2. I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.

St. Vincent

#3. Once in a while, I smell Clive on my skin and it stops my day. It's a train crossing; I wait to pass. Eventually the lights stop flashing, the barriers lift. I keep moving.

Marie-Helene Bertino

#4. Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically ... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

Wayne Kramer

#5. You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men.

Yoko Ono

#6. A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

Rachel Maddow

#7. For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

Hippocrates

#8. She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.

Bobby Petrino

#9. Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

Tristan Tzara