Troubadours Quotes

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

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.

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.

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

George Jones, Johnny Paycheck all them dudes they're respected and they were twice as crazy as I'll ever be.

Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.

Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?

It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.But part of our job is to communicate the way a town crier did: It's 12:00 and all is well, or it's 11:30 and the whole Congress is sold. It's part of the job.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.