Dirt Music Quotes

#1. Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity.

Tim Winton

#2. Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.

Johnny Cash

#3. To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

Nina Simone

#4. It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it's hard to tell.

Gabrielle Zevin

#5. Don't beat yourself up, son. I'm sure there is a culture on this spinning ball of dirt where you can be pretty. If not, do rock 'n roll, or practice words. That shit's pretty as well.

R.X. Bird

#6. After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

Vernon L. Smith

#7. Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

Jim Courier

#8. She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

Maya Angelou