Country Music/second Generation 1930s%e2%80%931940s

Famous quotes containing the words country, music and/or generation:

    “There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “So gladly, from the songs of modern speech
    Men turn, and see the stars, and feel the free
    Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers,
    And through the music of the languid hours,
    They hear like ocean on a western beach
    The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.”
    —Andrew Lang (1844–1912)

    “I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines.... What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!”
    —Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)