Sonny Terry quotes
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“You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.”
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“It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.”
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“So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.”
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“If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.”
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“If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.”
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“In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.”
-- Sonny Terry
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Source : Arthur Edward Waite (2003). “Devil-Worship in France: With Diana Vaughn and the Question of Modern Palladism”, p.219, Weiser Books
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“We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press
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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
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