"There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Alison Goldfrapp

#Folks Quotes #Folk Music Quotes

“God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.”

Source : Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books
“"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.”
“We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination.”
“There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of spirit that makes you think of Thoreau along with a commitment as fierce as that of Pablo Neruda.”
“"Marriage" is an internationally recognized word that says we are committed as a couple and are responsible for each other and any children that we have.”
“I got raped when I was 11, and I loved it.”
“I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.”
“"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."”

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