Elizabeth Cotten famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us always.
-- Elizabeth Cotten

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I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.
-- Elizabeth Cotten

#Music #Art #Honor

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.
Google might be doping the horses.
I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

Elizabeth Cotten famous quotes

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