11 Quotes & Sayings By Nathan Hill

Nathan Hill is the author of The Nathan Hill Show, which airs Monday through Friday at noon on WGN-AM. He was formerly a founding member of The Jayhawks, the band that helped define the alternative country genre in the mid-1980s. He has also received the 2011 Dove Award for Male Vocalist of the Year. Hill has collaborated with artists like John Mayer, Damien Rice, and Tim McGraw, and is a current member of Jonatha Brooke's live band Read more

He teaches songwriting at Columbia College Chicago.

But such was the way with people — they loved...
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But such was the way with people — they loved the things that made them miserable. Nathan Hill
He’s looking for people he can be himself around. Aren’t...
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He’s looking for people he can be himself around. Aren’t we all? Nathan Hill
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You know, there used to be a difference between authentic music and sellout music. I'm talking about when I was young, in the sixties? Back then we knew there was a soullessness to the sellouts, and we wanted to be on the side of the artists. But now? Being a sellout is the authentic thing. When Molly Miller says 'I'm just being real, ' what she means is that everyone wants money and fame and any artist who claims otherwise is lying. the only fundamental truth is greed, and the only question is who is up front about this. That's the new authenticity. Molly Miler can never be accused of selling out because selling out was her goal all along. . Nathan Hill
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She’d decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you’re twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don’t know what your small true part is until much later. Nathan Hill
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There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries. Nathan Hill
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What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the mind’s secrets. Nathan Hill
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It was true. Heard it on Cronkite. Nathan Hill
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A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box? Nathan Hill
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The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them. Nathan Hill
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It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is. Nathan Hill