Vance Gilbert Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.”
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“I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.”
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“The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.”
-- Vance Gilbert
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“How are my ribs? They're so meaningless it's hard to believe,”
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Source : "Interview with Ed Hirsch". "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series", 1986.
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“My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.”
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“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
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