Famous quotes containing the words traditional, folk and/or music:
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making processa process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were madeconstructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudesbut photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.”
—Jean Szarkowski (b. 1925)
“Do you know what a soldier is, young man? Hes the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.”
—Allan Massie (b. 1938)
“We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)