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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Masterpiece
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
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I like what's obscure.
- People
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More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
- People
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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.
- Potential
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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.
- Little
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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.
- Fanatical
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It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.
- Brief
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
- Concise
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
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Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
- Music
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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.
- Discussed
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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.
- Funny
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Be obscure clearly.
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