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Alan Lomax

"And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art."

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"And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art."

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Donna Grant

"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

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Donna Grant

"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

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Donna Grant

"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."

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Donna Grant

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

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Donna Grant

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

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Donna Grant

"Music gives life to the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

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Donna Grant

"Music gives strength to the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

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Donna Grant

"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."

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Alan Lomax
"The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species."

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Alan Lomax
"And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art."

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Alan Lomax
"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."

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Alan Lomax
"I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music."

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Alan Lomax
"He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that."

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