March 11: Notable Births and Deaths, with Quotes
Let’s explore notable birth and death anniversaries for March 11.
Bobby McFerrin, vocalist (March 11, 1950–present)
“In the ‘60s you had all these distinctive voices like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Led Zeppelin—great groups who wrote some exciting music. I’m a ‘60s child, and that was the music I listened to. Jazz was the last music I got into, and that was in the early ‘70s.” —Bobby McFerrin
King, Bill. “A Conversation With….Bobby McFerrin.” FYI Music News, August 23, 2019, https://www.fyimusicnews.ca/articles/2019/08/23/conversation-withbobby-mcferrin.
“My body does not contain a lot of instruments. It contains sounds and colours. The technique came out of necessity. When I work on something, I must ask myself, ‘What are the elements? Intonation. Good intonation. I’ll focus on that and just work at it.’” —Bobby McFerrin
King, Bill. “A Conversation With….Bobby McFerrin.” FYI Music News, August 23, 2019, https://www.fyimusicnews.ca/articles/2019/08/23/conversation-withbobby-mcferrin.
“Nobody is going to sit in the audience and watch a singer sing perfectly and creatively if he just stands there with his hands in his pockets. So, I started to move my body and it helped me as a singer.” —Bobby McFerrin
King, Bill. “A Conversation With….Bobby McFerrin.” FYI Music News, August 23, 2019, https://www.fyimusicnews.ca/articles/2019/08/23/conversation-withbobby-mcferrin.
Rupert Murdoch, businessman (March 11, 1931–present)
“Take the story about Patty Hearst being released: we had that story in our bureau here at the ‘National Star’ about 10 hours before the ‘Post’ broke it in their last edition. There’s something wrong with the newsgathering. The reporters are too busy writing essays about city government or about their favorite hobby horses and not getting the hard stuff — courts, politics.” —Rupert Murdoch
Cockburn, Alexander. “Rupert Murdoch Tells All.” Village Voice, November 29, 1976, https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/11/29/rupert-murdoch-tells-all/.
“I don’t want to come in knocking American journalism, but I really think the British subeditors are still the best in the world, and I think on the whole that Australian reporters are the best in the world: it’s energy, aggressiveness, and so on.” —Rupert Murdoch
Cockburn, Alexander. “Rupert Murdoch Tells All.” Village Voice, November 29, 1976, https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/11/29/rupert-murdoch-tells-all/.
“Why am I in papers? I just love it. The only other thing I like is politics, and I’ve never let myself get into that. I think you prostitute your newspapers once you start joining political parties. People have done the two. But, to me, that would be really terrible.” —Rupert Murdoch
Cockburn, Alexander. “Rupert Murdoch Tells All.” Village Voice, November 29, 1976, https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/11/29/rupert-murdoch-tells-all/.
Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Serbia and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (August 20, 1941–March 11, 2006)
“Through the play of history and life, it seems as if Serbia has, precisely in this year, in 1989, regained its state and its dignity and thus has celebrated an event of the distant past which has a great historical and symbolic significance for its future.” —Slobodan Milosevic
Milosevic, Slobodan. “Slobodan Milosevic’s 1989 St. Vitus Day Speech.” University of Arizona, June 28, 1989, https://cmes.arizona.edu/sites/cmes.arizona.edu/files/SLOBODAN%20MILOSEVIC_speech_6_28_89.pdf.
“Today, it is difficult to say what is the historical truth about the Battle of Kosovo and what is legend.” —Slobodan Milosevic
Milosevic, Slobodan. “Slobodan Milosevic’s 1989 St. Vitus Day Speech.” University of Arizona, June 28, 1989, https://cmes.arizona.edu/sites/cmes.arizona.edu/files/SLOBODAN%20MILOSEVIC_speech_6_28_89.pdf.
“Socialism in particular, being a progressive and just democratic society, should not allow people to be divided in the national and religious respect. The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.” —Slobodan Milosevic
Milosevic, Slobodan. “Slobodan Milosevic’s 1989 St. Vitus Day Speech.” University of Arizona, June 28, 1989, https://cmes.arizona.edu/sites/cmes.arizona.edu/files/SLOBODAN%20MILOSEVIC_speech_6_28_89.pdf.
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