Vance Gilbert famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.
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I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.
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The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
-- Vance Gilbert
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Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
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Would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs?
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How are my ribs? They're so meaningless it's hard to believe,
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I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.
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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
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I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.
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I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.
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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp†reality.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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