State Folk Song

Famous quotes containing the words state, folk and/or song:

    “Utah is the only State that gives condemned men a choice between death by hanging or before a firing squad. Most prisoners prefer the firing squad, but one obstinate convict in 1912 elected to be hanged because “hanging is more expensive to the state.””
    —State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    ““I have usually found that there was method in his madness.”
    “Some folk might say there was madness in his method.””
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “Lest all the song notes
    pause and break
    across a blood-stained throat
    gone songless,
    turn back.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)