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The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes…but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

Alan Lomax

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead.
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Dead Folk People Say Song Southern
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village.
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Back Day Knew Live People Village
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 real run-through of their art.
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Always Art Down Everything Important Run Singer Think Thought Try
The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes…but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies
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Country Essence Headline Hero
We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they’re not like him.
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Cultural Everybody Feel Inferior Machine Powerful Reach Singer
Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space.
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Back Cash Invader Outer Power Space Start
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
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Add Cultural Dimension Equity Freedom Humane Justice Liberty Need Social Speech
My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency.
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Been Devote Life Oppose Tendency
That the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.
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Country Jazz Land Mountain Produce Song Spiritual Sterline
The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.
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Computer Electronic Facility Gadget Make Mankind Modern Reinvigorate Wonderful
Folk Music is the map of singing.
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Maps Music Is Singing
Crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities.
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Crush Human Other Out Possibility
He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
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Book Come Country Folk Music Ought Say Sing Song Use

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