Stacy Horn > Quotes

“I tried to catch the eye of everyone around me who wasn’t a soprano I. I get it. First sopranos don’t feel this. You hear it, but you don’t feel it. You don’t know that those lowly peasants making a nice vocal cushion for you to step on had parts that were every bit as rapturous as yours”
― Stacy Horn, Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others

“Music will enable you to see past facts to the very essence of things in a way which science cannot do. The arts are the means by which we can look through the magic casements and see what lies beyond.”
― Stacy Horn, Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others

“There is no spot on earth that is free from loss. On this street, or in this room, someone lay down or was put down and was no more. Someone held someone else for the last time here. Rivers and lakes and oceans are full of people who vanished beneath the surface and were never seen again. Wherever you are standing, wherever you call home, someone left the earth there. Everyone we love dies and disappears.”
― Stacy Horn, Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory

“Einstein’s ‘spooky interactions.’” Einstein had famously described quantum entanglement as “spooky action at a distance.”
― Stacy Horn, Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory

“Then, only a minute later, my mood & my world changed. I hit my first correct soprano 2 note. I don’t even know where it came from, but I got it right. It was a D. The soprano 1 to my right was singing the B flat above me. I love that glorious high B flat & I should have been apoplectic with envy about not getting to sing it myself, but instead I was pinned to that D, vibrating with a wondrous musical rapport I’d never felt before. I was feeling harmony. Not just singing it, but physically feeling it. It was a rush. You don’t experience this when you’re singing the melody. I was completely in the power of the sound we were making together & I just stood there, afraid to move, thinking, Don’t end, don’t end, don’t end.”
― Stacy Horn, Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others

“Louis Eliopulos, who works on cold cases for the Naval Criminal Investigator’s Service, is fond of saying, “If they were easy cases they would have been solved already.”
― Stacy Horn, The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad

“Good-by, then, old friend. . . . in that wider world of being of which this little Cambridge world of ours forms so infinitesimal a part, we may be sure that all our spirits and their missions here will continue in some way to be represented, and that ancient human loves will never lose their own.”
― Stacy Horn, Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others

“And who cares about cold cases? Counterterrorism has been the focus since 9/ 11, and the Cold Case Squad doesn’t have the juice.”
― Stacy Horn, The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad

“the relation between crime and poverty is no more essential than between crime and wealth.” Where were the standing armies of police to monitor the crimes of the elite?”
― Stacy Horn, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

“Before a small, unknown Methodist college was transformed into Duke University in the late 1920s, the city of Durham had been a backwater, known mostly for minor league baseball and cigarettes.”
― Stacy Horn, Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory

“Being drunk in public was inexcusable for a woman. One annual report of the Board of Police Justices bluntly stated that “public exhibitions of drunkenness in females indicate a depraved and abandoned condition,” while men were sometimes let off the hook because in their case there were often “circumstances to be taken in mitigation of punishment which rarely exist in cases of females.”
― Stacy Horn, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

“Ye Shall Have a Song From Randall Thompson’s The Peaceable Kingdom, written in 1936 Performed by the Choral Society of Grace Church in the Winter, 2011 Water Night Eric Whitacre, 1995 Performed by Stacy Horn alone on January 10, 2012 Fate and Faith Songs Britlin Losee, 2011 Performed by the Women’s Choir of the Aaron Copland School of Music, 2012”
― Stacy Horn, Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others

“The dark shadow of crime spreads right and left, from the Penitentiary and the Workhouse, over all the institutions, the Asylum, the Alms-House and Charity Hospital; so that, in the minds of the people at large, all suffer alike from an evil repute.” Being poor had become a character trait that needed “correction,” like the impulse to steal or cheat. The Christian impulse to help the needy had been tamped down and replaced with an inclination to punish them.”
― Stacy Horn, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

“An 1888 police justice came right out and declared that for women only, simply being out at night was probable cause. The way he saw it, “no decent, respectable woman would be found in the street without an escort after 10 P.M.,” and therefore, he told a Women’s Prison Association investigator, “any woman alone in the street after that hour ought to be arrested.” Accordingly, at night police would sometimes sweep up women by the dozens.”
― Stacy Horn, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

“Poverty,” journalist Junius Henri Browne explained in 1869, “is the only crime society cannot forgive.”
― Stacy Horn, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

“Kalief Browder was arrested in 2010 at age sixteen for stealing a backpack and then held for three years without a trial on Rikers Island. During his time on Rikers, Kalief was beaten by both guards and inmates, and he spent an inconceivable two years in solitary confinement before his case was finally dismissed in 2013.”
― Stacy Horn, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

“Insanity was once believed to be due to a lack of faith, or demonic influence and possession, and it was treated by bleeding, starvation, prison cells, and straitjackets.”
― Stacy Horn, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

“The police department’s focus is on the FBI’s Crime Index; those are the seven crimes that are reported monthly to the FBI: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny theft, and motor vehicle theft.”
― Stacy Horn, The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad

“In my dealings with these people, it has been my aim to be, in the first place, Just. In the second place, Firm. In the third place, Kind.”
― Stacy Horn, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York