"He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo."

-- Pete Seeger

#Country Quotes #Song Quotes #School Quotes

“I believe in a woman's right to choose.”
“My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.”
“What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.”
“I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.”

Source : "Commentary: Stop throwing dirt on GOP 'grave'" by Ed Rollins, www.cnn.com. May 14, 2009.
“I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.”
“Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.”

Source : Mark Akenside (1779). “The works in verse of Mark Akenside M.D.”, p.289
“Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.”
“When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.”

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