Being Quote by Jesse Marsch

That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly what would…

— Joan Baez

I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a…

— Robbie Robertson

If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is…

— John Kinsella

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver…

— Salman Rushdie

The Bad English thing, everybody was playing at once and it was a big wall of sound.

— John Waite

Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When I was 13 I made a youth national team and we went on a trip to Europe. It was the first time that…

— Jesse Marsch

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape…

— John Cage

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Language is a social event.

— Richard Rodriguez

I travel a lot, and being in different countries and a part of cultures, that's just such a huge inspiration for music, and one…

— Donavon Frankenreiter