Alan Lomax Quotes

• The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

  Alan Lomax

  Dream, Lying, Hero

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• Ahora tenemos máquinas culturales tan poderosas que un cantante puede llegar a todo el mundo y hacer que todos los demás cantantes se sientan inferiores porque no son como él. Una vez que se pone en marcha, recibe tanto dinero y tanto poder que se convierte en un monstruoso invasor del espacio exterior que aplasta la vida de todas las demás posibilidades humanas. Mi vida ha estado dedicada a oponerme a esa tendencia.

  Alan Lomax

  Crush, Powerful, Space

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• The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

  Alan Lomax

  Justice, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

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• Folk Music is the map of singing.

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  Singing, Maps, Music Is

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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.

  Alan Lomax

  Correr, Arte, Real

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• The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

  Alan Lomax

  Gadgets, Computer, Wonderful

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• People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

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  Song, Land, People

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• 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.

  Alan Lomax

  Song, Book, Village

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