Minstrels Quotes

Some of the most learned of the people were chosen to make known the lives of those lords in songs.

My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me?

The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good.

Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages.

The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're— pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true— ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.