Sonny Terry famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
-- Sonny Terry

#Humanity #Mind #Way
It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.
-- Sonny Terry

#Easy #Masters #Difficult
So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
-- Sonny Terry

#Player #Curves #Water
If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.
-- Sonny Terry

#Get Away
If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.
-- Sonny Terry

#Expression #Millionaire
In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.
-- Sonny Terry

#Giving #Harmonicas #Damn

All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.
In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
And unlike the rest of you, he hasnâ€™t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he wonâ€™t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

Sonny Terry famous quotes

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