Topic: Who's Been Talking - Quote Drive 2013

[Mr.OMuck]

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. 
Ludwig van Beethoven

[Stuart]

"I think American children ought to be taught about roots music, just like they're taught about Thomas Jefferson or Mark Twain."

Pete Wernick

[JohnLeePimp]

"Stay down sunshine, you don't know what tomorrow may bring"

"Poor Bill" White - A Hundred Women

[Rivers]

Rescued from a Lyle Lofgren post from a couple or three years back, great quote made better by razor sharp attribution:

Nonsense is nonsense. But the history of nonsense is scholarship ? Saul Lieberman to an audience at Jewish Theological Seminary, introducing a lecture on the Kabbalah by Gerhard Scholem, sometime in the 1940s. Quoted by Cynthia Ozick, "The Heretic," New Yorker, 9/2/2002, p. 145.

[JohnLeePimp]

"She used to be beautiful, but she lived her life too fast"

Forest City Joe

[mutantmoose]

"If I was to have just one wish and I knew that wish was to come true, I would wish... I would wish that everyone in this world would love me just like I love everyone in this world. Man, what a cool world this would be!"  - Mississippi John Hurt, quoted by Dick Waterman, Sing Out! , February/March 1967

[JohnLeePimp]

Ain't but three more places poor Leroy wanna go:

Atlanta, Florida [one trip to Pensacola] and another trip to Baltimore

Leroy Dallas, Baby Please Don't Go

[uncle bud]

"Dr. Dominicker, what is your text going to be next Sunday?" "Well brother fowls and sister fowlettes, my text next Sunday will be taken from the Bed of Feathers." "The Bed of Feathers?" "Titled 'If the Rooster Had a Toothache, Would the Hen Pull It?'" -  Honeyboy and Sassafras, "The Chicken Sermon" on Cluck Old Hen - A Barnyard Serenade (Old Hat)

[Gumbo]

Fate, What's your trade?
Man, I'm a drunkard by trade but the company I'm working for is all out of materials!

Clayton McMichen and Fate Norris on 'Nancy Rollin' by the Skillet Lickers, 1928

[uncle bud]

People, when Columbus discovered this country, it was plumb full of nuts and berries. But I'm right here to tell you the berries is just about all gone. - Uncle Dave Macon, "Uncle Dave's Travels Part 4"

[JohnLeePimp]

"some screaming, some cursing... some have lost their minds"

Sam Montgomery, Blue Devil Blues

[Johnm]

I work too hard, baby, that's why I look so beat
I strain every nerve in my attainments, tryin' to make my poor ends meet

Gabriel Brown--Got No Money Blues

[Rivers]

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Added 53 quotes to the oracle for a total of 989, so just 11 more and we hit four figures.

Thanks to all the quote providers.

[Rivers]

When your knee bones go to aching and your body getting cold, you know you just gettin' ready, honey for some cypress grove - Skip James, Cypress Grove

The church bell a' tolling, hearse comes ridin' slow. Somebody's gone over yonder, won't never come back no more - Skip James, Cypress Grove

[JohnLeePimp]

Ain't nothing hurting me but my back and side
ain't nothing worrying me but my wife and child

Billy Boy Arnold - Prisoner's Plea