Sarah Vowell Quotes
27 Sarah Vowell quotes:
"I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in."
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"The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea."
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"What are you hiding? No one ever asks that."
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"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."
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"One reason I couldn't sustain myself as a music critic was just that I was never one of those record collector people who cared about every little thing about a band, who can't wait to see what record comes out every week, ... For me, it was always more obsessive. I could listen to the same Jonathan Richman song over and over again. I came at it as a fan, but not a 'follow the beat' kind of fan. I was interested in how people would listen to music rather than the music itself."
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"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."
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"We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry."
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