obscure Quotes

Be obscure clearly.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

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