Michael Martin Murphey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Water.... This is the first time I've had every song on an album be a Bluegrass and Cowboy Song at the same time.
-- Michael Martin Murphey

#Music #Song #Cowboy
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those are the instruments they use. It's acoustic music. We don't do that much modern country that has electric guitars and a lot of volume. It's a gentler form of music. It's from the land and comes from the ranchers and farmers.
-- Michael Martin Murphey

#Music #Country #Cowboy
Guys, you can date whomever you want, but marry a girl who can back up a trailer.
-- Michael Martin Murphey

#Girl #Guy #Racing
I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds.
-- Michael Martin Murphey

#Reality #People #Mind
If love never lasts forever, then what's forever for?
-- Michael Martin Murphey

#Philosophy #Forever #Lasts
What's the glory in living? Doesn't anybody ever stay together anymore?
-- Michael Martin Murphey

#Philosophy #Together #Glory

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.
Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides
I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.

Michael Martin Murphey famous quotes

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