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There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
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quoted in The Billboard Book of Rock Arranging by Mark Michaels.[page needed]|

 

Eugene Chadbourne

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I should've died a hundred thousand times,
Teetering stoned off the side of a building.
Nobody loved me and nobody even tried
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Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.

 

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I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

 

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A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience—provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control [...] his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.

 

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