Quotes About Appalachian Music

#1. If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.

Nelson Rodrigues

#2. And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

Alice Duer Miller

#3. When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

Doc Watson

#4. I miss you not because i don't have any one in life, but i miss you because i have no one like you.

Debolina

#5. Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.

Joseph Addison

#6. When I do overcome my fear - what's going to happen is that I'm going to want a plane.

DJ Khaled

#7. Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.

David Schwarzer

#8. I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

W.C. Fields

#9. Love unconditionally.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#12. They travel through the heartland, past cold factories and drifty towns, to the old, old mountains slumbering east of Tennessee.

Sarah Sullivan

#13. Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing ... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

Greil Marcus

#14. No cowboy songs, no hoedowns. It's a more serious piece. Yet every bar of 'Appalachian Spring' is clear, clean, tonal, intelligible - great music that anyone can grasp at first hearing.

Terry Teachout

#15. A bit reluctantly, trying to leave my bruised ego behind, I was warming to the Appalachian idea.
Bourbon and branch water. Dulcimer music. Wildflowers in jelly jars. Biscuits and country ham. That did have a certain charm.

Judith Fertig

#16. I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Carlisle Floyd

#17. Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Jay Samit

#18. We're a 'we' now?" "I thought I made that clear the other night when I tied you face down to the bed and fucked ya proper

Shelly Laurenston

#19. Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own ... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Renee Fleming

#21. I'm the leader of the SNP. I think you would expect me to say I would vote SNP in whatever constituency I lived in.

Nicola Sturgeon

#22. Music lets you write your own checks. Don't ever forget that.

Jason Jack Miller