Nellie McKay Quotes

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• I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

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  People, Feminism, Care

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• Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

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  Love Is, Fleeting, Emotion

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. June 16, 2004.

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• In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

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  New York, Cities, Old Buildings

  "Modern Music Masters: Nellie McKay". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 3, 2010.

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• In terms of content, a lot of rap is crap, with all the sexism and homophobic bullshit. It's incredible how rappers are always preaching nonconformity - you know, "I'm just gonna go my own way and be my own man and blah blah blah" - but they're the first ones to do so many things that they have to do. They have to do that hip-hop thing, a certain way of walking, and it's so conformist.

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  Rap, Men, Bullshit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

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  Sides

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

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  Band, Knows, Ifs

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• Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

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  Independent, Oasis, Radio

  "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Precocious and eccentric are okay. But I think that people in the arts represent something integral and kind of secretive in everybody else. So the reason people like some artists is because they're saying or doing something that they would like to do or say, but they don't have the balls or the means. People are really afraid to put their ass on the line. Just to put your face on a poster and put your name in big print and say "Come see me," that takes some cojones, you know? Ambition is nothing to be ashamed of.

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  Art, Ambition, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

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  Play, Being Ignored, The End Of The Day

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• I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

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  Art, Trying, May

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• I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

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  Phones, People, Admiring

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• What people generally tell you is, "We'll all agree," and then once you sign, they expect to get their own way. I think it was a bit of a surprise that I was still very headstrong even after signing. I wasn't so happy to get a deal that I would agree to anything. In fact, I disagreed on most things and got my way on most things, which I think was to all of our benefit. But they wanted the record to come out, and I wanted the record to come out, so we had to work together.

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  Thinking, People, Working Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

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  Musical, Style, Kind

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• The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

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  Culture, Sadistic, Form

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• Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

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  Art, Mean, Media

  "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• I'd been knocking on record companies' doors for so long, and I had gone on a lot of auditions. It's weird when you go to those auditions through the Village Voice or something. You never know what to expect. You just press Floor 3 on the elevator and pray that it's not... You know, anyone can place an ad, so it's really freaky.

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  Long, Praying, Freaky

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.

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  Dream, Strive, Criticize

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• Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

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  Desire, Needs, Communicate

  "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

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  Brain, Singers, Hierarchy

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. June 16, 2004.

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• I was in school for jazz voice, which is the dumbest way to spend $35,000 a year. I just felt like a rip-off of good jazz singers. I didn't feel like I was being anything special, and I always wanted to be special. It's like you know you have something inside you that's gonna make you different than everybody else and make you somebody in this life, but you wish you could figure out what it is, because at most things, you're either mediocre or really, really bad.

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  School, Special, Wish

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.

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  Nice, Thinking, Wish

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• I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

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  Focus, Done, Kind

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• My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

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  Mom, Parent, Supportive

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• I'm glad I got a record contract, because all of a sudden everything you were doing before that made you a stupid person now makes you a smart person.

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  Smart, Stupid, Glad

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. Even though singers, particularly singers who can play piano... If you go to the office of career development, you can get a gig much easier. Still, musicians tend to look down on you. I think they've got some nerve, because if they could sing, they would do it, but most of them can't.

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  Thinking, Office, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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