Topic: Who's Been Talking - Quote Drive 2013

[Rivers]

It's a long way to Temporary, the sweetest place I know - Mance Lipscomb

[uncle bud]

Cain killed Abel, but I wasn't going to let that cane kill me - Emmett Murray, on quitting his job in the sugar cane fields, notes to Drop On Down in Florida

[uncle bud]

Any old limb that you hang me on will be a home-sweet-home for me - Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers, "Fourth Of July At The Country Fair" (1927)

[Rivers]

White people have no business playing the blues ever, at all, under any circumstances. Ever, ever, ever. What the f--- do white people have to be blue about? Banana Republic ran out of khakis? - George Carlin

[uncle bud]

All the people around me, they give me plenty air - Barbecue Bob gets sprayed, "Black Skunk Blues"

[uncle bud]

"We have attempted to bring to light the ruinous and devastating effect of sending the profits of business out of our local communities to a common center, Wall Street.... appealed to the fathers and mothers -- who entertain the fond hope of their children becoming prosperous business leaders -- to awaken to a realization of the chain stores' closing this door of opportunity.... insisted that the payment of starvation wages such as the chain-store system fosters, must be eradicated." - W.K. Henderson, Louisiana broadcaster of KWKH radio, c. 1930

[Stuart]

"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
-- Will Rogers

"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated."
-- Poul Anderson

[uncle bud]

"We have attempted to bring to light the ruinous and devastating effect of sending the profits of business out of our local communities to a common center, Wall Street.... appealed to the fathers and mothers -- who entertain the fond hope of their children becoming prosperous business leaders -- to awaken to a realization of the chain stores' closing this door of opportunity.... insisted that the payment of starvation wages such as the chain-store system fosters, must be eradicated." - W.K. Henderson, Louisiana broadcaster of KWKH radio, c. 1930

The above, BTW, is taken from the notes to the Tompkins Square compilation, Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard, in discussion of, among other things, the Allen Brothers song "I've Got the Chain Store Blues".

[Stuart]

Thanks for the source, Andrew. The two that I posted have appeared in various contexts since they first appeared.

I'm always surprised (although I shouldn't be) how far back the origins of many of these insightful quotes go. I guess it's a case of, "The more things change..."

[Johnm]

But it ain't no use to worry, honey, 'bout the time you've had
If you had a lot of trouble, honey, it is just too bad           
                                                                            Barbecue Bob--"It's Just Too Bad"

[JohnLeePimp]

"I was born in the mountain, schooled in a lion's dead
My daily occupation's taking women from monkey men"

Wilson Thunder Smith - Santa Fe

[JohnLeePimp]

"Rosa Lee got hair, like a mermaid out on the sea"
Ernest Lewis - Rosa Lee

"One of them gal's got a sugar farm - the other one got a oil-well in her back yard"
Arthur Big Boy Spires - Which One I Love

[uncle bud]

"I was born in the mountain, schooled in a lion's dead
My daily occupation's taking women from monkey men"

Wilson Thunder Smith - Santa Fe

Hi JohnLee - I believe that should be "schooled in a lion's den".

[JohnLeePimp]

"I was born in the mountain, schooled in a lion's dead
My daily occupation's taking women from monkey men"

Wilson Thunder Smith - Santa Fe

Hi JohnLee - I believe that should be "schooled in a lion's den".

It's the predictive text on my tablet... I type a sentence and then spend 5 minutes correcting every other word... the future is muddled and time consuming

[Rivers]

* * * Updated * * *

Added 37 quite quixotic quotes to the oracle for a total of 936. Hopefully we can break a thousand this year so please keep them coming.

Thanks y'all!