The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.
Leon Redbone
I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history... →
If you're not interested in history, if you're living for the day, you need some sort of cliche hook. I certainly don't think of myself... →
My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only... →
Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people... →
Irwin Redlener
It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is... →
Sumner Redstone
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the... →
John Shelton Reed
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science.... →
Martin Rees
Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed up at the... →
Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a... →