Daniel Pearl Quotes

When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

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

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

Most Billy Joel songs make me want to cry a little.

I have a great liking for the Chamba folk music, which depicts the beauty of women and the mountains with a touch of Indian classical music.

Music makes me cry.

I write a lot of sad songs!

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

I'm saddest when I sing.

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.