"We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency."

-- Mark Twain

#Music Quotes #Men Quotes #Virginia Quotes

“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out”
“That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.”
“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”
“There is no great difference in the reality of one country or another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, or may have a different education or position. But they are all the same. They are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.”
“When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.”
“Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But thatâ€™s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it”

Source : mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”
“I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.”
“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.”

Source : TIME magazine, November 11, 1996.

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