Country Music/third Generation 1950s-1960s

Famous quotes containing the words country, music and/or generation:

    “Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.”
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

    “Since a man must bring
    To music what his mother spanked him for
    When he was two ...”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “‘Society’ in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, ‘good for this generation only,’ and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)