Alan Lomax Quotes, Song Quotes, Land Quotes

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

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There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

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Tags : Aaron Watson Quotes , Cheating Quotes , Song Quotes

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

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Tags : Theodor Herzl Quotes , Dream Quotes , Song Quotes

I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've never written a song and thought 'oh it'd be great if in this part this happened in the audience'.

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Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell]

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Tags : Adam Sandler Quotes , Song Quotes , Ideas Quotes

The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Song Quotes , Blood Quotes

The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work and I'd go into this cubicle that had a little upright piano and fake white cork bricks on the wall, and a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside. Every day from 10 to 6, we'd go in there and pretend that we were 13 year old girls and write these songs. That was the gig.

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Tags : Al Kooper Quotes , Girl Quotes , Song Quotes

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Soccer Quotes , Song Quotes

The very funny thing about "Like A Rolling Stone" is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument. So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord.

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I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

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So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

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Tags : Adam Lambert Quotes , Song Quotes , Freak Quotes

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Song Quotes , Calling Quotes

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Song Quotes , Religion Quotes

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Song Quotes , Children Quotes

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Song Quotes , Kissing Quotes

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Song Quotes , Art Quotes

I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.

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Tags : Adam Ant Quotes , Song Quotes , Play Quotes

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Song Quotes , Thinking Quotes

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Song Quotes , Trying Quotes

Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not understand Solomon's song. They call it prophecy symbolising Christ's love for the Church. They think it nonsense and father some story upon it.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Christian Quotes , Song Quotes