
“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Pledge To Country Music" in Music City News (March 1965)
“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
This Is Country Music.
Song lyrics, This Is Country Music (2011)
“What am I singing?
A song of seeds — The food of love. Eat the music.”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
answer to question "How does it feel to be declared persona non grata by your own country?" www.philpost.com (November 25, 2006)
2007, 2008
Speech in the House of Commons (10 December 1766), quoted in Basil Williams, The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume II (London: Longmans, 1914), pp. 228-229
1760s
As quoted in The Crimson Field.
The Crimson Field (2005)
Letter to Camille Pleyel.
Context: My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos... in this respect this is a savage country.
“There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western.”
Misc.
Letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee (1950), as quoted in "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", by Scott Jacobs, in The Week Behind (23 September 2009) http://www.theweekbehind.com/2009/09/23/somewhere-over-the-rainbow/