Merle Travis famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.
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The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
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Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
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You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
-- Merle Travis
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
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O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem! With dazzling pomp descending angels sung Good will and peace to men, to God due praise, Who on the errand of salvation sent Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity Essential part, made flesh that mad'st all worlds.
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Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.
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The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.
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I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I've been so sweet.
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I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today
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It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
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What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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