Victor Borge Quotes

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

The harmonica is a great instrument.

I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

Drums were my first instrument.

I got a brand new flugelhorn today in this gorgeous case, it's beautiful.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music.