"I was reared on folk music."

-- Rufus Wainwright

#Folks Quotes #Folk Music Quotes

“Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I hate jeans for no reason.”
“Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world”
“My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.”
“It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.”
“You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.”
“The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.”
“Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.”

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