Lomax Quotes

#1. William Stoner felt a kinship that he had not suspected; he knew that Lomax had gone through a kind of conversion, an epiphany of knowing something through words that could not be put in words,

John Edward Williams

#2. As far as it is possible for one upright Christian gentleman to dislike another upright Christian gentleman, Lord Caterham disliked the Hon. George Lomax.

Agatha Christie

#3. 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

#4. Stoner said to Finch, I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax.

John Edward Williams

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Pete Seeger

#8. I looked at my little family all smiling and quite happy at the thought that Charlie had tried to maim or kill Mr. Lomax - or at least blow up his van - and I realized then that I was the only normal one.

Nina Stibbe

#9. 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

#10. It's not about exact measurements or ingredients', shrugged Lomax, when Joseph complained. 'Good food is about feeling. Cooking is an art, not a science. You got to have soul to feed people right.' He smiled. 'That's what this is. Soul food.

Alex George

#11. The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

Alan Lomax

#12. Riding it [a roller coaster] is like living your whole life in five minutes.

Raeder Lomax

#13. Yes, you are still grieving for the fact that Olly is not loving you as you love him. But death is no solution. Certainly not this horrible, messy death. Could you at least not consider possible option that is not leaving you looking diabolical at funeral?"
Oh, for the love of God.

Lucy Holliday

#14. Folk Music is the map of singing.

Alan Lomax

#15. People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

Alan Lomax

#16. I said a lot of true things, the most jarring ones I could, because if you say honest things harshly people look at them. And not at you.

E. Jade Lomax

#17. Torture, after all, is inconspicuous; all it needs is water, a piece of wood and a loud voice. It takes place in squalid rooms, dirty back yards and basements, and there is nothing left to preserve when it is over.

Eric Lomax

#18. Falling in love is not a crime but child abduction is

Ian Lomax

#19. And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

Alan Lomax

#20. The wounds were not on the surface, nor detectable by stethoscope.

Eric Lomax

#21. The passion for trains and railways is, I have been told, incurable.

Eric Lomax

#22. The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

Alan Lomax

#23. Admit it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet"
Live it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet"
Shout it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet

Phyllis Lomax Singh

#24. I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

Alan Lomax

#25. He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

Alan Lomax

#26. physical healing happens so fast; it is the rest that takes time.

Eric Lomax

#27. You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

Alan Lomax

#28. The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes ... but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

Alan Lomax

#29. The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Alan Lomax

#30. Remembering is not enough, if it simply hardens hate. Sometimes the hating has to stop.

Eric Lomax