Holly Near Song Quotations

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back ...

Time has passed through me and become a song.

You can kill a man but not a song when it's sung the whole world 'round.