Galesburg, Illinois+

Galesburg, Illinois+ is a 2016 exhibition by Stephen Prina.

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	Song			Notes
1.	We'll Roll Back the Prices	Carl Sandburg	1957	"The song was written by some wags in the Office of Price Administration during World War II, said Sandburg, and he thought that it was mighty timely now."
2.	Jay Gould's Daughter	Carl Sandburg	1957
3.	Harbour Lights	Frances Langford	1937
4.	He's Gone Away	Carl Sandburg	1957
5.	It's Too Late	Carole King	1971
6.	Roll the Old Chariot
7.			2015	Lyrics from the New York Times' "Quotation of the Day"
8.	Lonesome Road
9.	Harbor Lights	Boz Scaggs	1976
10.	Casey Jones	Carl Sandburg	1957	Same tune as Jay Gould's Daughter
11.	Cigarettes Will Spoil Yer Life	Carl Sandburg	1957
12.			2015	Lyrics from the New York Times' "Quotation of the Day"

Track 7

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Date	New York Times Quotation of the Day, 2015
January 2	There’s no doubt in my mind that if he had the opportunity to kill me, he would.
January 8	This was a maximum-impact attack. They did this to shock the public, and in that sense they succeeded.
January 11	When you’re inside the water, you shouldn’t be thinking about anything, not Ebola, not nothing, just the waves.
January 13	Leaving would be caving into terrorism. If we leave, the terrorists win.
January 17	No freedom should be abandoned.
January 19	I don’t think the other teams expected us to be as tough as we were, and fast and strong and aggressive.
January 21	Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort?
March 21	Well, I guess the question is, which one?
January 24	It was pure illusion that peace could be achieved now. None of the sides has yet achieved its goals. The only real surprise is that the fighting started in the winter instead of the spring.
January 25	The nets go straight out of the bag into the sea. That’s why the incidence for malaria here is so high. The people don’t use the mosquito nets for mosquitoes. They use them to fish.
January 26	The middle has basically stayed the same; it hasn’t improved. You’ve got an iPhone now and a better TV, but your median income hasn’t changed. What’s really changed is the penthouse has become supernice.
January 27	People have to make smart decisions from this point on. It is not business as usual.
January 29	You’ve got to look that parent in the eye and demonstrate through actions, not words, that you are doing things to create a better, safer environment for their child.
January 30	If one thing is lacking, O.K. If there are no automobile parts, we’ll see. Food, that’s problematic. But health care, that’s more problematic. Where will it end?
January 31	I said, ‘I’d rather you miss an entire semester than you get the shot.’
February 5	The thing’s dinging, red lights are flashing, it’s going off. I just remember going, ‘Hurry up.’ I just knew she was going to back up — never in my wildest dreams did I think she’d go forward.
February 6	They started with the shootings; then came the beheadings.
February 9	You can’t keep treating normal people with traffic tickets like felons. I live a normal life. I have a son. I’m not a bad person.
February 12	There is a tendency to say ‘This is a nice place, these eruptions of violence don’t belong here.’ And yet here we are. This is, in all of the heartbreak and violence and sadness, where we are.
February 14	I had those normal jitters you have when you are going to say your vows. All of that was just crushed.
February 16	They would say, ‘Grandpa, I don’t want to die young,’ and I held them, and they were shaking, and I looked in their eyes, and they were afraid. Now we are hoping.
February 18	I felt like my world crashed a little bit.
February 19	You have to understand, I am in pain. My son is gone.
February 20	If I talk to him for an hour, they undo him in two hours.
February 21	When is a deal not really a deal? When it kicks the can down the road and when no one can agree on what was agreed.
February 22	The demonization of detainees is embedded in everyday practice.
February 23	Maybe in healthier times for the music business there would be a little more human compassion. But now, the business is in a really troubled place, and people have other responsibilities, like their own livelihood.
February 24	Money is oxygen for terrorism.
February 25	My biological daughter looked like me, but I suddenly realized that I had given birth to a person I didn’t know, and I was no longer the mother of that child.
February 27	There are no rules as to how long cases should cook, no recipe. Lots of factors must be weighed.
March 3	I cannot go back home, because they will kill me.
March 6	2 seconds more we would have been in the water!
March 12	I may not be enlisted anymore, but I’m still a warrior. I figured if I could walk away from here and kill as many of the bad guys as I could, that would be a good thing.
March 14	A lady said, ‘I really want to make a perfume that smells like my horse.’ I said, ‘Whoa.’ That kind of challenge I don’t get every day.
March 15	This will be in our kids’ history books.
March 16	An army. That’s the goal.
March 17	Have you all seen the broken, paralyzed president, who has been kidnapped by generals? He’s only just flown in from Switzerland, where he attended a birth, as you know.
March 18	It is often thought that getting the biopsy will give definitive answers, but our study says maybe it won’t.
March 19	Just because we removed the word ‘patient’ from the statement doesn’t mean we’re going to be impatient.
March 20	I personally think we are just not smart enough — and won’t be for a very long time — to feel comfortable about the consequences of changing heredity, even in a single individual.
March 21	Well, I guess the question is, which one?
March 23	We had this forehead-smacking realization that poverty has all of these expensive consequences in health care. We’d pay to amputate a diabetic’s foot, but not for a warm pair of winter boots.
March 27	The interpretation we can give at this time is that the co-pilot, through a deliberate act, refused to open the door of the cockpit to the commander, and activated the button that commands the loss of altitude.
March 30	The court will proceed to gargle in an effort to remove the lingering bad taste.
March 31	They are profiting off of people in vulnerable situations. The cost determines when I can talk to my husband and when my son can read a book to him.
April 2	People should realize we are in a new era. The idea of your nice little green lawn getting watered every day, those days are past.
April 3	When I looked back, I saw them. There were five or six of them. They were masked. And they were shooting live rounds.
April 5	We wondered what had happened but were glad when they dropped off our radar.
April 6	Climate conditions have exposed our house of cards. The withdrawals far outstrip the replenishment.
April 7	I call it the dumbing down of terrorism. They keep it simple. They’re lightly armed, highly disciplined and relatively well trained.
April 9	I knew this family would never get justice, and this guy just hands us justice. He handed us justice.
April 11	It just takes a random billionaire to change a race and maybe change the country.
April 12	How do you leverage the benefits and accomplishments of the last four years but make clear this is an election about the future?
April 13	It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood. It seems that the human family has refused to learn from its mistakes caused by the law of terror, so that today, too, there are those who attempt to eliminate others with the help of a few, and with the complicit silence of others who simply stand by.
April 14	So much of aging and so much of being in a long-term care facility is about loss, loss of independence, loss of friends, loss of ability to use your body. Why would we want to diminish that?
April 15	I felt like justice was somewhat served. I have no pity for what happened to them today because it is what it is. I’m sorry.
April 21	It’s very comfortable here, especially now that my sister has moved out. But they do treat you like a child.
April 22	Nonhuman animals do not have legal rights any more than they have legal responsibilities. For a court to hold otherwise would have tremendous adverse legal and moral implications for mankind.
April 23	He was an extreme fan of the ‘Les Misérables’ soundtrack.

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Date	New York Times Quotation of the Day, 2015
April 25	I am always hungry.
April 26	It was like being on a boat in heavy seas.
April 28	This is not what the family asked for, today of all days. For us to come out of the burial and walk into this is absolutely inexcusable.
May 1	This isn't the way you want to make history. When a judge goes home and he keeps thinking, over and over, that something's wrong, something is usually wrong.
May 5	I grew up without a dad. I grew up sometimes lost and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of the other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.
May 7	This is our country, just like anyone else’s country.
May 8	My usual morning route has become a big adventure for me. Now, in my taxi we discuss paintings and artworks.
May 9	This man did it. He said it. How many times does a man have to confess before someone believes him?
May 11	There are thousands of women who are working in this, but no one asking: ‘What’s happening to you? How do you feel?’ We just work and work.
May 12	The magnitude of falsity, conservatively measured, is enormous.
May 13	You told me that you believed in me, and that was the day I decided to dedicate my childhood to jazz.
May 14	The first bump, you didn’t know what it was, except that it was something strong. The second, you knew something was wrong. And the third, forget about it, now you’re praying.
May 15	I don’t want to be too overdramatic, but if these people aren’t treated and brought to shore soon, we are going to have a boat full of corpses.
May 16	They didn’t know about the blues. They had been taught that the blues was the bottom of the totem pole, done by slaves, and they didn’t want to think along those lines.
May 20	He said, ‘Just make sure if you fail, you did what you wanted to do.’ I took that to heart. I said, ‘O.K., then that’s what I’m going to do.’
May 21	Who should we contact in case you become a martyr?
May 22	Sometimes I close my eyes and imagine he’s still alive.
May 24	Everything to do with technology is a window to the outside world, and there is nothing out there that our young people don’t know about.
May 25	She can’t find a full-time job. She’s waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting for an interview right now.
May 26	It’s half the battle — to visualize they can go to college.
May 12	The magnitude of falsity, conservatively measured, is enormous.
May 28	Sir, I’m just calling you to say that we’re going to need you to come to your door and open it for us, or we’re going to have to kick it in.
May 29	Prison is not four walls. Outside, people did not have any mercy. People would call you names, especially for a woman there was a lot of shame.
May 31	Our side isn’t used to being asked for that kind of money. If you asked them to put up $100 million for a hospital wing, they’d be the first in line.
June 1	I fell on the ground. It shocks you. It hurts you. It shivers your body.
June 4	We have advised teachers not to go back. They are subject to attacks.
June 5	Sell your house; don't sell this horse.
June 8	I will have the last laugh.
June 9	Now the government is belatedly trying to mend the fence after the cow had already been stolen.
June 10	Five-year-olds need to play and color. They need to go out and sing songs.
June 11	It sets up a system where first there’s the punishment, and then there’s the opportunity to go to court for trial.
June 12	There are dead fish in my living room.
June 13	He really wasn’t raised into the best society. We drank a lot, we partied a lot. His life was into turmoil.
June 15, 2015	The myth of Magna Carta lies at the whole origin of our perception of who we are as an English-speaking people, freedom-loving people who’ve lived with a degree of liberty and under a rule of law for 800 years. It’s a load of tripe, of course. But it’s a very useful myth.
June 16	Where does it stop? Does that mean you own the cloud, too?
June 17	I had no idea that years later, she would match the body with the soul.
June 18	This is America. I should be able to have a howitzer or a bazooka if I want one.
June 19	The church must introduce in its teaching the sin against the environment. The ecological sin.
June 21	Science is like a compass. It can tell us where north is, but it can’t tell us if we want to go north. That’s where our morality comes in.
June 22	What lit the fire under this was the tragic death of my friend and his eight parishioners. It took my buddy’s death to get me to do this. I should feel ashamed of myself.
June 23	There is no more country.
June 28	All of us have a natural firewall in our brain that keeps us from bad ideas. They look for weaknesses in the wall, and then they attack.
June 29	I feel like a full citizen for the first time in my life. And I feel that people that still hate no longer have the government backing them up.
June 30	While most humans wish to die a painless death, many do not have that good fortune.
July 3	This tsunami is coming.
July 4	So many people are leaving you can’t even find suitcases.
July 6	We’ve reached our limit. This is not a society of beggars.
July 8	Retribution is a valid societal interest.
July 9	There are no buyers, only sellers.
July 12	We used to carry knives. Now we have to carry keys.
July 13	I am so sick and tired of all this. It’s such crazy theater.
July 16	I don’t think any one of us could have imagined that this could have been a better toy store.
July 18	You expect this kind of thing at war, but not here, and they never had a chance to fight back.
July 19	When your contract is over, they send you home, saying they’ve transferred the money. You get home, and there is nothing there.
July 20	Summary execution, vigilantism, overzealous defense, call it what you will. This boils down just the same to a case of murder at sea and a question of why it’s allowed to happen.
July 21	It is sort of like a wedding. You’ve spent all this time planning your wedding day, and finally you’re getting to see someone walk down the aisle. Now, you have the rest of your life together.
July 22	It is designed to break a man’s will to live.
July 23	At least they listened to us. We’re breathing little by little.
July 24	I asked to use his needle and he said, ‘Hey, I’ve got hep B and C.’ And at the time it didn’t really matter to me. The desire to get high was just so great.
July 25	He was by himself, he sat by himself, and the first two people he shot were right in front of him.
July 27	You belong to the captain. So he can sell you if he wants.
July 28	Best of all, it’s not a plan, it’s not a sketch, it’s not a dream, it’s not a vision. It is actually happening.
August 2	The question is whether we are in a new Gilded Age or well beyond it — to a Platinum Age.
August 3	I didn’t like him, but I had to like him.
August 4	The word ‘tragic’ would be fair.
August 5	It seems she’ll stay in the sea. I think she would like that.
August 9	It’s not the end of the world; she didn’t give away the crown jewels. But this is not how things are supposed to be done.
August 10	It’s crazy. Six years ago, this would not have happened, but now that is the landscape we are in.
August 11	There’s always a sense things can boil over, but there’s a sense of maturity here.

Track 12

Date	New York Times Quotation of the Day
August 12	It’s something we don’t tolerate; it’s something we can’t stand. And you don’t walk up to another man and punch him in the face.
August 13	When she talked about him, she would get the biggest smile on her face. She just loved this guy. He was everything.
August 14	He said that raping me is his prayer to God. I said to him, ‘What you’re doing to me is wrong, and it will not bring you closer to God.’
August 15	I feel like a 5-year-old trying to learn this stuff.
August 16	I’m in extreme isolation, and I don’t understand why they would do this to me.
August 17	Fifty-three. Where are all these girls?
July 8	Retribution is a valid societal interest.
August 20	He was a retired government employee and an old man. He was innocent, so he never thought ISIS would hurt him.
August 24	He seemed like he was ready to fight to the end, and so were we.
August 25	I call on the international community to stand united against this persistent cultural cleansing.

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