Alan Seeger Quotes

#1. When I was 14, I tried to stab someone.

Benjamin Carson

#2. 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

#3. At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

Alan Seeger

#4. Nobody dressed like that in Aubrey, not even in the nicer parts.

John M. Cusick

#5. I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.

Richard Rodriguez

#6. Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.

Alan Seeger

#7. I am always there.
But they don't care if I am
because I am furniture.
I don't get hit
I don't get fondled
I don't get love
because I am furniture
Suits me fine.

Thalia Chaltas

#8. While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Brad Feld

#9. I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.

Pete Seeger

#10. I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds of music there was in this country that you never heard on the radio.

Pete Seeger

#11. Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

Pete Seeger

#12. From a boy
I gloated on existence. Earth to me
Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there
One trembling opportunity for joy.

Alan Seeger

#13. Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

Edgar Fiedler

#14. Love is how you live, not how you feel.

Vivi Monroe Congress

#15. You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid.

Mel Brooks

#16. Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.

Pete Seeger

#17. What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

Albert Camus

#18. I said goodbye again
sucking up all that was left of her into the
little that was left of
me. I said, 'don't look for me again. fuck it.
we are all lost. goodbye, goodbye.

Charles Bukowski

#19. But he knew he'd started reading books on Sri Lanka, because he needed to explain things, to himself and others -- because if that world, his world over there had ever made sense, it seemed far more confused when questioned from outside.

Pradeep Jeganathan

#20. The space involving insanity and genius is calculated only by good results.

Bruce Feirstein

#21. Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving.

Frederick Lenz

#22. The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

Marc Davis

#23. Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.

Alan Seeger

#24. I have a rendezvous with death ... I will not fail that rendezvous

Alan Seeger

#25. So die as though your funeral
Ushered you through the doors that led
Into a stately banquet hall
Where heroes banqueted.

Alan Seeger

#26. women with a little bit of power can be much harder than men. Especially on other women. They have to distance themselves from the weakness of their sex. Yes?

Karin Slaughter