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5 quotes by Alan Lomax

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And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first... →

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He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang... →

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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my... →

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The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form... →

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You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was... →

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