If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
- Holly Near
Making Mistakes, Making, Leap
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
- Holly Near
Truth, Keep, Sucked, Digging
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
Nation, Against, Lullaby, Whereas
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, Always, Real Pain, Sensitivity
I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.
- Holly Near
Culture, Dominant, Allowing, Dictated
The war on drugs is a war against the communities.
- Holly Near
War, Against, Communities, War On Drugs
You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.
- Holly Near
Bread, Leave, Part, Yeast
When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
- Holly Near
Students, Voted, Cast, Kent
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
Think, Give, Will, Women Are
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
- Holly Near
Artist, Part, Willing, Surprised
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
- Holly Near
White, Middle, Longer, Upper-Class
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
Been, Delicate, Activist, Lines
It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.
- Holly Near
Think, Excited, How, Essential
You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
- Holly Near
Pretty, Feeding, Keep, Hogwash
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
City, Been, Had, Labor Movement
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, Guilt, Linked
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
Surprise, Living, Like, Dinner
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
- Holly Near
People, Why, Show, Wrong
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
Believe, Platter, Nirvana, Silver
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, Like, Part, Bitter
The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
- Holly Near
Women, Over, Attitudes, Count
My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
- Holly Near
Thought, Think, Through, Encouraged
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
Concert, Say, Come, Perspective
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
More, Part, Keeping, Content
When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
- Holly Near
Hope, Audience, Somewhere, Concerts
When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
- Holly Near
Opportunity, Mistakes, Learn, Blessed
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
- Holly Near
Think, Like, Songs, Expression
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
- Holly Near
Forward, Behind, Away, Storytelling
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