LINDA HOGAN. 1947—-Author, Professor. She descended from a family of storytellers who helped shape her. “Mean Spirit” “Solar Storm”
WE MAKE ART OUT OF OUR LOSS.
A SPOKEN STORY is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.
THERE IS A GEOGRAPHY of the human sprit, common to all people.
POETRY IS A STRING OF WORDS THAT PARADES WITHOUT A PERMIT.
DEATH IS DANCING ME RAGGED.
WE ARE FULL OF BREAD AND GAS, GETTING FAT ON THE OUTSIDE WHILE INSIDE WE GROW THIN.
WALKING. I am listening to the deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
SOME PEOPLE SEE SCARS, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.
TEARS HAVE A PURPOSE. They are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.
RUEBEN BLADES. 1948— “A Panamanian musician, singer, composer, actor, activist, politician, performing music most often in the salsa and Latin jazz genres.”
I THINK WE RISK becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
PEOPLE ARE A LOT SMARTER than anyone gives them credit for being.
A LOT OF TIMES YOU’RE JUST CONDITIONED BY WHAT’S AROUND YOU.
I WAS THE FIRST person to come into New Youk with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.
WHEN I WAS ABOUT THIRTEEN I BEGAN TO SING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
I WAS A KID, AND I REMEMBER MY MOTHER SINGING. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
LINDA RONSTADT. 1946—Her career began in 1967 with the release of folk-rock group the Stone Poneys self-titled album. “Different Drum”
THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS of singing are voice, musicianship and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.
THE THING YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED FOR is that other people don’t always dream your dream.
THE DREAM WORLD OF SLEEP and the dream world of music are not far apart.
THE ONLY REASON TO BE WITH SOMEBODY IS THAT THEY MAKE YOU BECOME A BETTER PERSON AND YOU MAKE THEM A BETTER PERSON.
ART IS FOR HEALING OURSELVES, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
EVERYWHERE YOU GO, THERE’S A SOUNDTRACK. You can’t really quite hear it. It’s just a little out of the range of hearing.
NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF SINGING IS LISTENING AND HEARING AND SO THEN ONE PERCENT OT IT IS SINGING.
I FEEL SORRY for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.
I WAS NEVER BORED because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
WHEN THE NIGHT WIND starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we’re sleeping underneath the same big sky.
THE GREATEST SIN IS CARELESSNESS.
IN COMMITTING TO ARTISTIC GROWTH, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.
PEOPLE DON’T REALIZE THAT BY VOTING REPUBLICAN, THEY VOTED AGAINST THEMSELVES.
I LOVE SEX as much as I love music and I think it’s as hard to do.
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE, beneath the pale moonlight, someone’s thinking of me and loving me tonight.
I THINK there’s a mind in nature. There’s a power in nature, and there’s a universal power that you better not ignore.
KEEP LOOKING UP