"Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people."

-- Brownie McGhee

#People Quotes #Folks Quotes #Folk Music Quotes

“I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and more powerfully promoted than ever before. Secret combinations ***** for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.”
“If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.”
“I'm here to encourage everyone to look at the data themselves, not just buy what they're told. I find that my standards for science are more important to me than anything else, and I hate to see them being depreciated by the alarmists' claims today. Politics and the media and what have you have allowed us now to be facing one of the biggest scientific hoaxes in history. That's what's being pushed on us.”
“What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.”
“I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.”

Source : "Think You Can Pitch? Creatives Break Down Their Art". Talk Of The Nation with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2012.
“People leave managers, not companies”

Source : Twitter post from May 20, 2014
“You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your career, is a partner who's going to bring everything they have to the scene.”
“I've always been mad about cats.”

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