Famous quotes containing the words folk and/or musician:
“An when the earths as caulds the mune
An a its folk are lang syne deid,
On coontless stars the Babe maun cry
An the Crucified maun bleed.”
—Hugh MacDiarmid (18921978)
“The mastery of ones phonemes may be compared to the violinists mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbors renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”
—W.V. Quine (b. 1908)