Swiss Folk Music

Famous quotes containing the words swiss, folk and/or music:

    “Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it’s supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.”
    —Claud Cockburn (1904–1981)

    “An’ when the earth’s as cauld’s the mune
    An’ a’ its folk are lang syne deid,
    On coontless stars the Babe maun cry
    An’ the Crucified maun bleed.”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

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