Top 31 Quotes by Holly Near

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

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.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

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.

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.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

People love to hear the mistakes you've made.