Top 31 Troubadour Quotes
#2. My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
Philippe Petit
#3. I think of myself ... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
Louis L'Amour
#4. Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed - an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materialistic world and shows us that even here, even now, there is hope for our soul.
Jacob Needleman
#5. But I want to be loved. I have always been loved. I want my husband to love me with a passion, like in a troubadour tale, like a knight.
Philippa Gregory
#6. Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.'
Linda Ronstadt
#7. In the Troubadour days, it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs and find out what was going on. So we all knew each other, and we just carried each other's word around.
Linda Ronstadt
#8. Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
Natalie Dormer
#9. I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.
George Strait
#10. Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.
Catie Curtis
#11. I thought of myself as an itinerant brain
the equivalent of a strolling player of Elizabethan times, or else a troubadour, clutching my university degree like a cheap lute.
Margaret Atwood
#12. I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him ... I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck ... Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.
Bob Dylan
#13. I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.
Ryan Adams
#14. When I look at great singers like Sinatra, Bennett and (Tom) Jones, I see great performers that can really move an audience. I really consider myself a troubadour privately and a song-plugger publicly.
Tiny Tim
#15. Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.
Douglas Brinkley
#16. Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage.
Chuck Wendig
#17. When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another.
Lauren Willig
#18. I love the intimate, single spotlight, troubadour-y quiet, delicate moments. But I also love Springsteen and screaming and shouting.
James Bay
#19. It's absurd to see an enchanted princess in every girl who walks by. What do you think you are, a troubadour?
Roberto Bolano
#20. You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.
James Earl Jones
#21. God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.
Phil Ochs
#22. Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with him. He swings. Check him out!
Eric Bibb
#23. I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.
Roger McGuinn
#24. I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.
Jewel
#25. I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
as a storyteller. A good storyteller.
Louis L'Amour
#26. Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?
David Mutti Clark
#27. You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?
David Mutti Clark
#28. And then the great music of which the world is made took him over, beyond thought, beyond control until he heard her cry his name and they fell together off the edge of the world.
Jean Gill
#29. The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we're bound.
David Mutti Clark
#30. And here's to the blues, the real blues - where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.
David Mutti Clark
#31. We start our lives with blues ... with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.
David Mutti Clark
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