“If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.” Quote by J Tillman
“I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.” UseShowsAbleOpportunityAlbums Author:J Tillman
“You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.” InspirationCreativeSourceSource Of Inspiration Author:J Tillman
“My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.” ProcessIdentityIntentionAfrican AmericanLabelsAmerican Identity Author:Mark McMorris
“Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.” WritingArtPurposeCultureNationsExplicit Author:Mark McMorris
“Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.” ArtIdeasBlackTalkingRolesRightsIdentityRevolutionElementsProductionsResistanceCivil RightsAggressiveAffirmationRefusalAssertionSuccessorsJamaicaBlack Art Author:Mark McMorris
“Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.” CultureNationsPartnersReciprocityNational Culture Author:Mark McMorris
“All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire.” WorldProblemLiteratureNationsIdentityThirdsFundamentalsSecureEmpiresOppressedInsecureThird WorldWorld Literature Author:Mark McMorris
“The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that is compromised, something that needs to be rescued or made - these matters preoccupy the third world writer. It is seductive for a Marxist understanding of literary practice and production in the sense that it says that material culture determines literary output.” WorldWantNeedsMadeMatterCultureNationsUnderstandingPracticeIdentityMaterialsThirdsFundamentalsDetermineProductionsAbsenceHorizonThird WorldSeductiveMarxistOutput Author:Mark McMorris
“It's always a strange moment when you get up on stage because in a way that's really the fulfilment of what you do, but at the same time when you write from a place that's very personal and quite isolated, at least for me, there's something that almost doesn't feel natural about it.” WayFeelsWritingMomentsNaturalStageStrangeGet UpIsolatedFulfilment Author:Alexi Murdoch
“The extraction tax is based in part on production times the market value at the wellhead, so any downturn in the market price is going to be a mathematical impact on the shale tax. But beyond that, it also concerns me because it also impacts the health of the industry.” ValuesIndustryTaxesConcernImpactProductionsMathematicalDownturnExtraction Author:Tom Wolf
