Topic: Talkin' About My Time - Quote Drive 2014

[Rivers]

Here's this year's fresh quotes thread. This one is named after a 12 string song recorded in prison by Eugene Rhodes and mentioned in the 12 string players not from Georgia thread.

[Mr.OMuck]

It was always political?


Sam Charters: We were all committed in one way or another. How many demonstrations did we do to get Pete Seeger on TV? It was all part of the view that America should change. We didn?t sing ?On Top of Old Smoky? because it was a great song, we sang it because we wanted change.

[Mr.OMuck]

From Bruce Langhorn regarding the early Greenwich Village Folk scene:
?It was one eclectic movement that included a fabulously diverse group of individuals. Some of us just loved to play and sing the music, some of us were into poetry, some of us were into the historical and cultural background of the music, some of us were into the current and historical political implications and applications of the music, some of us were into sex, drugs and alcohol, but everyone was a little bit into everything.?

[Rivers]

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Quotes database is now up to date with 14 more added for a total of 1009

Thanks to all the quote providers.

[Rivers]

What's the use in walkin' when there's a freight train going your way? If my mind don't change I'm western bound today - Tampa Red, Western Bound Blues

[uncle bud]

You know, music, it's spiritual. It draws the attention of the whole human race. - Roscoe Holcomb to John Cohen

[uncle bud]

The future is still ahead of us, but we're getting closer. - John Cohen, Play On, John: A Life In Music

[Johnm]

Boys, I'm goin' to tell you something, and I hope it's not a sin
My shoes done got thin, baby, and I'm back on my feet again
                         Furry Lewis--"Back On My Feet Again"

[Gumbo]

That's a clever one, Johnm

Sometimes we play for a white man at a dance for three hours at six dollars per musician and then work fifteen hours in the field for the same man for fifty cents the next day.
- Sam Chatmon interviewed by Lou Curtiss

[uncle bud]

Uncle Dave Handles the Banjo Like a Monkey Handles a Peanut - poster promoting Uncle Dave Macon shows, Folk America documentary

[Johnm]

I say, "You got yourself in trouble.  Don't you know, "Thou shalt not kill."?"
He said, "The less you say to me, Son, the better I feel."
                                                    Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson--"Messin' Up

[Gumbo]

 Now, Mist' Clark is a good lawyer, he good as I ever seen, He's the first man that prove that, water run upstream.
Sleepy John Estes - Lawyer Clark Blues

[Gumbo]

I'll stick closer to you, baby, than Jesus did the cross.
    Walter Davies - Life Boat Blues

[Johnm]

"They tied my hands behind me, well, they locked me to a friend"

                                                                    Lil' Son Jackson, "Prison Bound"

[Johnm]

"I'd rather drink muddy water, rather sleep in a real hollow log"


                                             Freddie Spruell-"Muddy Water Blues"