#comment

Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely there and always underfoot, the insistent gray muck that was pop culture. It stuck to our shoes and we tracked it through our lives. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#life #music #pop-culture #songs #life

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again. ↗

— David Byrne

#social-commentary #music

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#around #comments #draw #funny #grew

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#culture #hard #me #our #sorry

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#average #aware #business #comment #get

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#believing #comment #constrained #duties #exposed

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#because #comment #detail #hegel #i

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#commentary #humor #less #more #reflect

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ↗

— George Macaulay Trevelyan

#history #nonfiction #reading #social-commentary #education

Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#democracy