Folksinging Quotes & Sayings

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. — Edward L. Bernays

So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention ... This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed. — Peter Travers

We are a European nation - must stay one. — David Miliband

That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter
and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's career as a dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sleep, filled his brain night and day? Nothing brutal, you appreciate. Yet, in the final analysis, just as irresistible as a tritium bomb. — Arthur C. Clarke

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. — Tom Glazer

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer — Sadhu Sundar Singh

I was no longer sexually vulnerable to the death-by-sex Fae Prince.
Jericho Barrons was my poison now. — Karen Marie Moning