Holly Near Quotes

People love to hear the mistakes you've made.
Holly Near

Love, Mistakes, Hear

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
Holly Near

Why, Wrong, Show

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
Holly Near

Truth, Keep, Ourselves

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
Holly Near

Wisdom, Forward, Mistakes

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

Life, Hard, Sweet

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.
Holly Near

Culture, Dominant, Allowing

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
Holly Near

Hurt, Artist, Willing

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
Holly Near

Women, Able, Ways

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
Holly Near

Mistakes, Blessed, Learn

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

Music, Sleep, Put

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.
Holly Near

Political, Afraid, Word

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

Struggle, Keep, Silver

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

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.
Holly Near

Women, Men, Start

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
Holly Near

Food, Language, Expression

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
Holly Near

Great, Forward, Mistakes

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
Holly Near

Work, Political, Creativity

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
Holly Near

Life, Parents, Through

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.
Holly Near

Parents, Labor, City

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
Holly Near

Women, Give, Once

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

Time, Care, Thinking

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.
Holly Near

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

Pain, Real, Sometimes

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

Women, Men, Hear

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

Great, Living, Surprise

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Nationality: American

Born: June 6, 1949

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