We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under. Holly Near Read Quote
It’s been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can’t do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how. Holly Near Read Quote
Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form – to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself. Holly Near Read Quote
Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way. Holly Near Read Quote
I like this life. I like it when it’s hard, and I like it better when it’s not, but I know you don’t get the sweet part without the bitter. Holly Near Read Quote
To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain. Holly Near Read Quote
I don’t believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it. Holly Near Read Quote
To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner. Holly Near Read Quote
If I didn’t think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn’t sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing. Holly Near Read Quote
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, ‘Oh well, that’s for women’. Holly Near Read Quote
