Music

"The love of money is the root of all folk songs." - Bob Snider

 "The good musician can play all the right notes, but the greats can play them in the right order." - Mark Harmer

  "What's the opposite of a tribute band?" - Paul Merton

"Whatever you lack in Skill and Ability can be easily masked with Volume and Poor Attitude."- Marvin Johnson

"Nobody ever had to audition to sing along on 'We Shall Overcome.'" -Flip Breskin

"Black fiddlers are the trilobites of American musical history."  -John Jeremiah Sullivan

"In Beatles' time, seven years counts as seventy years in normal human time." - Hunter Davies

"Play every gig like it's your wedding." - Stanton Moore

“The only thing that rock & roll did not get from country and blues was a sense of consequences,” - Bill Flanagan

"I wrote a protest song, but it's an instrumental." -Demetri Martin

"Those who don't remember disco are doomed to repeat it." - Zeke Hoskin

"In folk music there isn't such a thing as a career move." - Art Thieme

“Only sick music makes money today." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"I like folk music as long as it’s not authentic.” - Zay N. Smith

“If you ever find yourself in a ballad, stay away from the river.” -Riley Baugus

"Your voice is a fretless instrument." -Laurel Bliss

“I’m not gonna die in 4/4 time.” - Moondog

"There is no better fun than community singing." -George Bernard Shaw

"When in doubt, sing 'John Henry.'" -Bob Gibson

"Folk music is a bunch of fat people." -Bob Dylan

"American movie makers have always held a deep reverence for composers whose works lie in the public domain." -Cecil Adams

"If any person has sung or composed against another person a song which is slanderous and insulting he shall be clubbed to death." -The Twelve Tables (first laws of Rome, 494 B.C.)

"In any invasion you'll find at least one soldier hitting the beach at H-Hour with a banjo slung over his shoulder." -Ernie Pyle

"Even sailors have a right to sing the blues." -Gordon Bok

"Soon, nasal laments of untrustworthy lovers met in bars filled the car with the sorrows of trying to get through life while unutterably stupid." -Donald E. Westlake

"If singing the blues is some kind of gift, next time I'd rather have a toaster." -Bob Snider

"There was no song on the radio too stupid for my heart." -Walter Mosley

"Both films are offered for preservation on the grounds that they preserve Sinatra. Why not preserve a good case of the mumps instead?" -Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, 1943

"Don't let me catch you laughing when the jukebox cries." -Kinky Friedman

"It just never occurs to me until it's too late that Learn Banjo in Five Minutes a Day means five minutes a day for the rest of my life." -John Diamond

"This next song is a little more direct and main stream. It's called 'My Heart Is Not A Poodle.'" -Tom Robbins

"I have never known a member of royalty, although I did once meet Fats Domino." -Bob Greene

"13 percent of households whose residents have never played an instrument still own one." -American Demographics

"There are five basic emotional states an autoharp can express: Sad, Happy, Angry, Peaceful, and Out-of-Tune." -Tom Schroeder