Shaker Songs

Famous quotes containing the words shaker and/or songs:

    Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Music is so much a part of their daily lives that if an Indian visits another reservation one of the first questions asked on his return is: “What new songs did you learn?”
    —Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)