Top 14 Mountain Folk Sayings
#1. No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.
George Herbert
#2. I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
Dolly Parton
#3. Turn a mountain upside down, you have a woman. Turn a woman upside down, you have a valley. Turn a valley upside down, you get folk music.
Tom Robbins
#4. The farther down the road you go the tougher they get and I live at the end of the road!
Edward L. Morse
#5. The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo.
Robbie Robertson
#6. The only working model of socialism I have ever seen is in an elementary school classroom.
R.M. ArceJaeger
#7. War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just get blown around like seeds in the wind until the city folk with calculators and Swiss bank accounts stop talking rot from a bunker under a mountain.
Bill Carter
#8. Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.
Robert E. Howard
#9. The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
Erica Jong
#10. (Matthew 22:37, 39) My purpose is to love God completely, love self correctly, and love others compassionately.
Kenneth D. Boa
#11. Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.
Stacy Keibler
#12. It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music, old-time music and bluegrass and we started a little band called the Garret Mountain Boys.
David Grisman
#13. 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
#14. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.
Milan Kundera
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