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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
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My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.
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...there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
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All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
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At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
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Don't be too quick
To break bad habits: better stick,
Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.East and West Poems, Part I The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin -
Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.
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Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.
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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
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Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.
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From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
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Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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