Irish Folk Musician

Famous quotes containing the words irish, folk and/or musician:

“I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates
Of snails, musician of pears, principium
And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig
Of things, this nincompated pedagogue,
Preceptor to the sea?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)