"My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper."

-- Pete Seeger

#Country Quotes #Song Quotes #Mistake Quotes

“Most of us have the tools we need, we're just not sure how to use them.”
“To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.”

Source : "A conversation with Todd Hido". Interview with Joerg Colberg, jmcolberg.com. June 18, 2007.
“Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.”
“There are many difficult challenges in Afghanistan. And we still have Taliban. We still have terrorist organizations there, and we will see violence and we will see conflict there also in the coming years,.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.”
“As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.”
“Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.”

Source : William Stringfellow (2006). “Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Entertainment, in the end, is a food industry for feeling.”

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