Tom Paxton famous quotes
03-25-2025
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Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing.
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In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John Denver. I love to hear this man sing.
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In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton’s songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!
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A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.
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Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.
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As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.
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Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.
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Chris Chandler reminds me of my own self way back when - listen to him Now!
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Some people you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em.
-- Tom Paxton
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Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
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Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
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If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently
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On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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Tut, Tut, looks like rain
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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
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Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
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