Salman Rushdie Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day.

  Salman Rushdie

  Song, Wild Side, Perfect Days

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2013

• Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.

  Salman Rushdie

  Song, Baby, Art

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

• In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Song, Art

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

• [My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

  Salman Rushdie

  Song, Self

• I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like being deflated, which makes it all the more important to continue to deflate them. These are very courageous people around the world who poke fun from inside these societies. So, we now have to broaden the definition of what we mean by "writer" to include bloggers, cartoonists, song writers, visual artists - all these people are, in different ways, quite brave.

  Salman Rushdie

  Song, Fun, Mean

  Source: pen.org

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