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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
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
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
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
— Holly Near
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
Time has passed through me and become a song.
— Holly Near
People love to hear the mistakes you've made.
— Holly Near
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
— Holly Near
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
— Holly Near
All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.
— Holly Near
Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.
— Holly Near
When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
— Holly Near
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
I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children
— Holly Near
The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
— Holly Near
The war on drugs is a war against the communities.
— Holly Near
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
— Holly Near
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
My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
— Holly Near
Peace can start with just one heart.
— Holly Near
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
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
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
— Holly Near
When I am willing, all sound is available to me ...
— Holly Near
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
— Holly Near
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