"Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father participated with him because my father was a musicologist and urged trained musicians to learn about "the vernacular.""

-- Pete Seeger

#Song Quotes #Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.”
“The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.”
“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”
“Â“I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.Â””

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“There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.”
“They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.”
“If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk.”
“Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.”

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