Pokey LaFarge famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm certainly not a trained singer. I'm just kind of following a feeling.
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Country, blues, rock 'n' roll, these are things that anybody can sing - male, female, person of color. From wherever you are in the world, you can sing this.
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The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis and there’s a certain attitude that comes across in the songs and the way that they’re performed. I’m born and raised in the Midwest, and my family’s been here for generations. This is where I’m from and how I think, and that’s reflected in the music I make.
-- Pokey LaFarge
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On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.
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The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
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I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
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When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
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I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
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The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.
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