"I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos."

-- Pete Seeger

#Country Quotes #Father Quotes #Squares Quotes

“The White House admitted that Vice President Biden's endorsement of gay marriage forced him to come out in favor of it. So in a related story millions of Americans are trying to get Biden hooked on pot.”
“The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.”

Source : "Cyber Rights". Book by Mike Godwin, 1998.
“I have to be reminded, â€œâ€™Itâ€™s your sonâ€™s birthday party. Bring a camera.â€™ And then, when Iâ€™m there, â€˜Take a picture,â€™ because it doesnâ€™t occur to me to use it as this memorializing thing.”
“I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan Collini's phrase, "public moralists" and politicians, plutocrats, bankers, arms dealers, and experts and technocrats were not solely defining the moral norms as well as the political lives of our societies. We do have some writers claiming to be public moralists, but, as I said, they have actually been more jingoistic than even the henchmen of Bush and Blair.”
“Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on Â… the world of beauty around us.”
“Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.”
“I'm still an artist who's searching, trying to evolve, an artist who - nine times out of ten - is dissatisfied with her work, and beats herself, and goes out there and tries again and again, and falls on her face and looks for new challenges.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'”

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