Topic: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012

[mr mando]

Rural musicians were very frequently no more than frustrated vaudevillians. - Tony Russell, Blacks Whites and Blues, p.14

[mr mando]

Count up the troubles of the white man and then those of the black, and the second list will always be longer by one entry. - Tony Russell, Blacks Whites and Blues, p.102

[uncle bud]

Well I would holler murder, but I was born to die - William Do-Boy Diamond, "The Shaggy Hound"

[Mr.OMuck]

I think Big Bill sings JOB'S Turkey, not
Joe's Turkey, JLP

[cheapfeet]

Apologies if this has been added already but I was reading an old thread & this little gem popped out at me:


Singing is where the rubber really hits the road. How invested are you? What do you have to bring to the song? How much are you capable of letting yourself feel? How much of that are you willing to show? Are you willing to step out of your set identity to engage a song? Unless singing is embarrassing, it ain't no damn good at all.
-Weenie's own Mr. O' Muck

[uncle bud]

Yup, that's a good'un, CF. Don't think we've got it in the Oracle yet.

[Rivers]

Good quote. I tried to adopt it as a subtext this afternoon while the missus and I were recording some stuff. I still have a long way to go before reaching that point but it's a very helpful idea.

[uncle bud]

I had to stop drinkin' though, 'cause I got tired of waking up in my car and driving 90 - Richard Pryor

[Rivers]

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Added 50 quintessential quality quotes to the oracle, for a total of 899. Thanks, keep them coming. I remember when we had 15 and thought we were doing pretty good. Personally I'm slightly amazed there are still so many good lines out there I've never heard, and remember thinking back then we would run out of steam waaay before now.

So who wants to post #900?

[ScottN]

no pressure...

December 1963, young Villanova student Jim Croce (yes, that one) asks a question about the recent Newport Folk Festival in an interview of Mississippi John Hurt for radio station WWVU

Croce: "Do you believe the Festival marked a comeback in your own career?"

Hurt: "I certainly don't think it hurt," he answered laughing.  "Of course my career has seen more comebacks than a Friday night fish fry.  I've been around a long time, you know.  My first record was for Okeh in 1928."

From I Got A Name - the Jim Croce Story by Ingrid Croce and Jimmy Rock (Da Capo 2012)

[unezrider]

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off. – Woody Guthrie

[frailer24]

Quote from Roscoe Holcomb: "There wasn't any real blues before Blind Lemon. Blind Lemon made the blues."

[lindy]

To make music is the essential thing – to listen to it is accessory. -- Charles Seeger

[Shovel]

"You'd be thinkin' 'bout that ham, wouldnt ya Jelly!"
-Alan Lomax spoken interjection into Jelly Roll Morton's rendition of 'Nearer My God to Thee', Library of Congress Sessions ,1938

[unezrider]

[My mama] said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but you’re no Chuck Berry’. — Jerry Lee Lewis