Its amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when theres some substance beneath it and when there isnt. Even if its poetically written and technically brilliant, Id rather hear something thats all over the place but has some soul to it. – Teddy Thompson
Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle. – Thomas Frank
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. – W. H. Auden
…happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it… – Aristotle
