Folk music Quote by Cecil Williams

When people get up on the stage and say, "I've got AIDS," or "I'm in recovery," gosh, it's hard for them. It's like that…

— Cecil Williams

I need to be in touch with the people. You've got to look in their eyes, and you've got to feel what they feel.…

— Cecil Williams

The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace each other,…

— Cecil Williams

Any racism or barriers that may be put up, you get a tremendous sense of resistance. The more you push me, the greater I…

— Cecil Williams

I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church I grew…

— Cecil Williams

When the musician starts improvising, he never can go back to what he did last Sunday. That's what's frightening to a lot of people…

— Cecil Williams

I'm not interested in being an intellectual or in being traditional, conventional. I'm not interested in having great wisdom. I'm not interested in those…

— Cecil Williams

There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph is as…

— Cecil Williams

I have excessive energy, tremendous energy. I have a sense of people. I can feel them, pretty much so, in a short time. I'm…

— Cecil Williams

Death is a reality, but life is a reality also. You got to live at this time in your life like you've never lived…

— Cecil Williams

If you got the truth, you put it out there, and everybody says, "Oh, my God. That's me." And then they improvise also. They…

— Cecil Williams

I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it…

— Cecil Williams