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Johnny Flynn Quotes

Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground. The songs sound quite old, even if they're new. They sound like they've been sung by different people for years.

Johnny Flynn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: south african
Birth: March 14, 1983

Topics

Music People New Now Sound Old

In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the States, constituting this great and glorious Union. To the rest of the world, we are one. Neither State nor State government is known beyond our borders. Within, it is different.

John C. Calhoun

Power Great Government World Rest

You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

Andrew Forrest

You Try Prime Ministers Rockets Put

When I'm in drag, I don't always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.

Trixie Mattel

Work Love Look Nobody Want Always

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.

Tony Kornheiser

Treat Plague Offense Bears

What if we move to a path to legalization? How do we reconcile that with justice and fairness with those that come here legally?

Trent Franks

Path Justice Fairness What If Here

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Toni Morrison

Work Women Children Words Tough Two

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

Robert Wyatt

Life Work Happiness Great Musicians

I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.

Mary Beard

Women Power History Looking Action

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Walk People Look Street See I See

There are certain guys in the league that get their rhythm off their dribble.

Draymond Green

Rhythm Get Off Dribble Guys Certain

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

Brian Eno

Work Live Personality Think Never

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.

Antony Beevor

History Me Battle Decisions You Way