Folkways Music Quotes & Sayings

What I wanted was for him to want me, for him to touch me. He held my hand sometimes. Once I fell asleep next to him on the sofa, my cheek resting against his white T-shirt, and he put his arm around me. I wanted more than that--I wanted for him to kiss me. I wanted his want. — Sarai Walker

You can have all the sympathy in the world," she said, "just don't feel like you have to wrap your life around it. — Judy Reene Singer

Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice. — Debasish Mridha

Chrystle? I'm back!
I refused to say that I was home because Cassie was my home. But I'd lost that, and her, forever, so I'd never truly be home again. — J. Sterling

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman. — Billie Jean King

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do. — Todd Park

In the middle of the night, I saw chaos bleeding out of darkness and peace. Everything that was said and seen before seemed like a paradox. I saw the graves of lies breaking open and the truth crawling out silently into the cold hearts. — Akshay Vasu

Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?' — Carl Sandburg

Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot. — Ann Brashares

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan. — Ezra Taft Benson

Turn your soul's vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him. — Lilias Trotter

When you start thinking from other's point of view, you will understand him more easily and more completely. — Girdhar Joshi

You learn the wisest lessons from your enemy. If you live. — Aleksandr Voinov

As if it were the equal of Western classical or art music. The recordings were given respect, thoughtful presentation, and technical attention that was all too rare for non-Western music. I had grown up on Folkways's Nonesuch field recordings and the stuff Lomax had done for the Library of Congress, but the production values on the Ocora releases were on a whole other level. Eno and I realized that music from elsewhere didn't need to sound distant, scratchy, or "primitive." These recordings were as well produced as any contemporary recording in any genre. You were made to feel, for example, that this music wasn't a ghostly remnant from some lost culture, soon — David Byrne

The changes in her are like music missing the refrain. The song's transformed, though what's left remains familiar. — Corrine Jackson

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. — William Dampier