Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed crooked folklore and halfway opera. (Thomson's opinion of Porgy and Bess)
Virgil Thomson
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When a rural Ecuadorian, in the heart of the mountains, listens on his transistor radio to the Chilean Victor Jara singing his “Plegaria a un Labrador” (A farmers prayer) he is, although he may not realize it, listening to a piece of folklore. Such songs belong to a group of sometimes ephemeral phenomena which might be called “subjective folklore”, and which have not yet been given a place among the categories made by folklore specialists.
Victor Jara
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley
Q: You never heard about it again?
A: No. There was no Face-Space or Twitter at the time, so they would have had to put it in a ’zine. Now it’s just folklore. Except it’s not folklore because I’ve just confirmed it.Davey Havok
Dear young people: What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations? Are you living in a way that opens a space for the Spirit in the midst of a world that wants to forget God, or even rejects him in the name of a falsely-conceived freedom? How are you using the gifts you have been given, the 'power' that the Holy Spirit is even now prepared to release within you?
Benedict XVI (Pope)
I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.
John Green
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Thomson, William - a.k.a. Lord Kelvin
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