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Each song has its own way that it likes to be done, but it can be more than one way. If you tap into it, you can feel it. Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina. Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
At some point you have to take responsibility for who you are and where you are and being able to listen to other points of view, whichever side of the tracks you're on. Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I decided to study music my last year in high school. Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
So my mom's folks are from one side of Greensboro - and, you know, outside of Greensboro. And my dad's folks, the white side, is from another very small town outside of Greensboro. So both sides are coming from the country. Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument. Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense. Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history. Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana. Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
People say, I'm tired of thinking about race, it's a drag. Yeah, well, welcome to my life! I don't care who you are. We have the time and the headspace for this stuff. The least you can do is take a moment. Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I started singing as a hobby, but the minute I started, I knew that I loved it. Mary Wilson	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
We did have some difficult times. Really, there were more good times than bad. I've been honest about a lot of the things that happened and the truth is, I have more good memories than bad ones. Mary Wilson	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
If you have loved someone and then fell out of love with them, it is possible to fall back in love with them; but only if they were not the reason you fell out of love with them. RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo)	added by RJ Intindola 4 years ago
You and I are opposite sides of the same coin. When we face each other, we can finally see our true selves. There may be a resemblance, but we never face the same direction. Larry Foulke	added by Whitefalcon1740 4 years ago
Don’t seek peace and happiness with the same people and in the same place where you never found it. RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo)	added by RJ Intindola 4 years ago
She not weird, gross, or crazy; just uniquely special in the eyes of God, the Almighty Lord and Creator of the Universe.” Ying Haase	added by CodeCrazy_58 4 years ago
Why is there so much disrespect towards people who aren’t “uniformed” like everyone else? Because at the end of the day, one fact, remain; we all are the same; humans.” Ying Haase	added by CodeCrazy_58 4 years ago
He who wishes to fight, must first count the cost.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War	added by CodeCrazy_58 4 years ago
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. Immanuel Kant	added by Normando 4 years ago
There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth. George Jacob Holyoake	added by Normando 4 years ago
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age. Sir James MacKintosh	added by Normando 4 years ago
Longing for someone to touch, caress and meld into, is a strong human emotion of never-ending desire and want. When the desires do not exist in real life, we tend to live them through dreams and fantasies. We even resort to the extent of choosing a person we know and have feelings for to place a face on the illusion. RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo)	added by RJ Intindola 4 years ago
If you are not going to fight for what you want, do not expect others to step in and battle for you. RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo)	added by RJ Intindola 4 years ago
The majority of the people create their own demons. Therefore, the real demon is your mindset and your ability to imagine. Mwanandeke Kindembo	added by King_M 4 years ago

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