Obscure Quotes
On the unknown, the overlooked, and what stays hidden.
These quotes explore obscurity in different senses, from a musician's preference for obscure tunes over well-known standards, including a couple of Duke Ellington pieces, to existence itself described as footnotes to a vast, unfinished masterpiece. Readers may also enjoy our Artist quotes.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
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More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
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I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.
The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it therefore makes sense to attend to them even before they become urgent.
Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.
Artist Quotes
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.
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The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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Other entries warn that a good catchword can obscure real analysis for decades, and trace the obscure, uncertain origins of an entire literary genre. Together they treat obscurity as something to be wary of as well as something to appreciate.
