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Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.
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Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.
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Gail has said in interviews that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other.
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The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
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I can't talk to you about music because you don't know anything about music. I can talk to you about politics or sociology and all that peripheral stuff, but I can't talk to you about music. There's not enough information in common that I could say to you so you'd be able to understand. Besides, the people who read OUI don't give a fuck about music anyway.
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The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or rich.… That leaves me making music. But we can't talk about that.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
December 21, 1940
Died:
December 4, 1993
(aged 52)
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