Terri Hemmert quotes

The music is huge. I consider it a privilege to do what I do, turn people on to music and tell them about issues.
-- Terri Hemmert

#People #Music Is

When I'm on the phone with a listener or I meet someone one-on-one, and they're on the lowest rung of hell and they open up, I realize, hey, this isn't about being a DJ anymore. When you're with people who are going through a difficult part of life, that's sacred space. That's better than any trophy or meeting a rock star.
-- Terri Hemmert

#People #Realizing #Hell

I like to tell the students the radio business's like surfing. You get knocked off your board by a wave, you get back up, stabilize, regain your balance and keep going. One thing I can guarantee them is that everything will change. You have to be ready for it. But that's life. Life constantly changes.
-- Terri Hemmert

#Surfing #Balance #Students

Kids today are doing really hard work. Years ago they were involved in anti-apartheid protests. Now there's the whole Occupy movement. Kids are studying to work with handicapped children and so many other things.
-- Terri Hemmert

#Children #Hard Work #Kids

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.