Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleas…

Salman Rushdie
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2012). Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991, p.12, Random House
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now. ✨ Independent, February 18, 1989.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

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