Paul Stookey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Ultimately we're all responsible for putting our belief into action.
-- Paul Stookey

#Belief #Action #Responsible
Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.
-- Paul Stookey

#Powerful #Heart #Medicine
What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?
-- Paul Stookey

#Men #Wife #Giving
In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything.
-- Paul Stookey

#Cat #People #Denver
You have to put your body on the line from time to time in order to make a statement or change a law.
-- Paul Stookey

#Order #Law #Body
Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to archive it; you want to freeze it in time in terms of your perspective on it, then move on, because folk music is that volatile and comments not only on overall human concerns but also on the specifics.
-- Paul Stookey

#Moving #Perspective #Essentials
Woman draws her life from man and gives it back again, and there is love.
-- Paul Stookey

#Love #Men #Giving
We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected to governmental office or taken on a leadership role in their communities. They are now in the position to make a difference.
-- Paul Stookey

#Song #Taken #Differences

Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

Paul Stookey famous quotes

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