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Tom Glazer Quotes
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we dont know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. - Tom Glazer Quotes
As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasnt until my 30s that I began a profession in music. - Tom Glazer Quotes
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them. - Tom Glazer Quotes
I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all. - Tom Glazer Quotes
I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else. - Tom Glazer Quotes
I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression. - Tom Glazer Quotes
I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level. - Tom Glazer Quotes
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but Im glad that I did it. - Tom Glazer Quotes
I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since. - Tom Glazer Quotes
I summoned my courage and auditioned for a choir job in a Catholic Church and landed a job there. It paid about thirty dollars a month. - Tom Glazer Quotes
I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies. - Tom Glazer Quotes
I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before womens liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece. - Tom Glazer Quotes
I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized. - Tom Glazer Quotes
Im afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though Im glad I am not any of these. - Tom Glazer Quotes
In the 50s, I wrote the lyrics to an old melody called Melody of Love, which was number one for a while. It later turned into a major hit. - Tom Glazer Quotes
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadnt thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden. - Tom Glazer Quotes
Later in the public schools of Philadelphia, where I was born, music was a very strong pervasive element, which struck me with great force. - Tom Glazer Quotes
Most performers dont admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely. - Tom Glazer Quotes
Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so thats what began my interest in music. - Tom Glazer Quotes
My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. - Tom Glazer Quotes
Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating. - Tom Glazer Quotes
Technically, Ive been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest. - Tom Glazer Quotes
The Musicians was recorded as a quartet by Dinah Shore, Phil Harris, Tony Martin and Betty Hutton. It was not a hit; it came and went. - Tom Glazer Quotes
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesnt matter; certainly, not to me. - Tom Glazer Quotes
Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if were lucky, it lasts... if not, then its in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year. - Tom Glazer Quotes
When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. - Tom Glazer Quotes
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together. - Tom Glazer Quotes
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music. - Tom Glazer Quotes
When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or 31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldnt keep up the payments. - Tom Glazer Quotes
When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging. - Tom Glazer Quotes
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