“We had a much more far-reaching approach, one that communicated that we wanted to put contemporary conditions in a historical context. They were much more open to that.”
Eugene Jarecki
“We played two cuts but nothing happened. That album was so far from what she was. (Adult/contemporary) radio picked it up faster than we could.”
Mike Kennedy
“one of the greatest contemporary humanist figures.”
Jacques Chirac
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
William Faulkner
“The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.”
Spiro T. Agnew
“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.”
Sir Walter Scott
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”
Christopher Lasch
