Topic: "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" Quote Drive 2017

[Johnm]

"But every good-bye ain't gone, baby, shut-eye sure ain't sleep
Every good-bye ain't gone, little woman, and the shut-eye sure ain't sleep
But I said one thing about it, baby, will you please remember me?"

"Don't Forget Me, Baby"--Frankie Lee Sims

All best,
Johnm

[GerryC]

"I never wonder to see Men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

(Both Jonathon Swift)

[frailer24]

"Now you can go to college, and you can go to school;            But if you ain't got Jesus, you an educated fool."   "Denomination Blues" -Washington Phillips

[Harry]

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."  Franz Kafka

[eric]

"Trying to remember something that just isn't there is right up my alley."

-- Stuart

[TenBrook]

"Blackfoot singers, for example, know that in Blackfoot cosmology music was given to humans to help them solve the problems they must face in life."
- Richard Crawford, from 'America's Musical Life: A History'

[Harry]

"You hear these songs, and they?re incredibly moving. But when we talk about it as being raw or authentic, it discounts just how hard this stuff was to play and how musically sophisticated and innovative it was. There?s a sense of almost remarginalizing it by talking about it as this primitive music that sprung up in the cotton fields, when in fact, it?s incredibly skilled and impressive music".

Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World?s Rarest 78 rpm Records.

[DerZauberer]

Forgive me if you've heard this one before (alas I am new here and have not yet read back on all of the material)... but this one is a perpetual favourite of mine that I use especially in all kinds of forums where people don't know what they are talking about when they talk about "Blues":


"The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are." - Son House

[Rivers]

Yep DZ, that one is a goodie and is already lurking in the quote swamp.

[lindy]

?At my age, the hard part is getting to the gig. The playing is easy.?

                                    --102-year-old Fred Staton, still getting paid gigs playing tenor sax

[btasoundsradio]

"after years of studying folklore, I've decided that it doesn't exist"
-John Fahey

[Rivers]

"I wasn?t too nervous? about waiting to be saved, he told The New York Times in 2006. ?I had my little wine and a couple of beers with me; I?m all right" - Fats Domino, NY Times obit, October 2017

[Pan]

"I'm beginning to notice some improvement."

Cellist Pablo Casals, when asked why, at the age of 93, he is still devoting 3 hrs a day for practicing.

[Rivers]

Added these 2017 entries to the quotes data today.