Tom Glazer Quotes

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• With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what…
• When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as…
• I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to…
• I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm…
• I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and…
• I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had,…
• Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.
• I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought,…
• When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage.…
• Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I…
• For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a…
• I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.
• I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.
• They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
• A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial…
• As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult…
• I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline…
• I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends,…
• Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music…
• My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I…

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