Old Time Mountain Sayings

#1. I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.

Brad D. Smith

#2. I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

Ralph Stanley

#3. Does what we do in life matter so much? Or is it what we don't do that carries weight?

Elif Shafak

#4. I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Dolly Parton

#5. People's lives in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable - deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.

Alice Monro

#6. For me, I guess the general reason for using social media is that the connection I have with people who are interested in my music is extremely important to me. That connection is like the pillar in everything I do. I want to embrace that connection and make it stronger.

Steve Aoki

#7. Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible
a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

Bill Frisell

#8. The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Hanna Rosin

#9. That old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong ..

Annie Proulx

#10. Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.

William Butler Yeats

#11. His eyes tracked the scarlet trail to its beginning: the top of the stairs leading to the parking lot.
My Livia will come to me on this path.

Debra Anastasia

#12. It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.

Suzanne Collins

#13. Hello, Spring Roll. I'm your daddy and I've been waiting to meet you for a long time. I love you so much.

Sylvain Reynard

#14. 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