Home / Quotes / Quote by Mary Travers

Quote by Mary Travers

“All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.”

Quote by Mary Travers

Author

Mary Travers was an American singer-songwriter known for her role in the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. Her musical career was marked by advocacy for civil rights, peace, and social justice. Born on November 9, 1936, she passed away on September 16, 2009. more

You May Also Like

“Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.”

Running Consciousness Quality Issues Music Is Folks Radio Streams Folk Music

Author:Mary Travers

“Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues.”

People Humans Important Different Helping Might Views Issues Conditions Concern Folks Point Of View Human Condition Consensus Folk Music Important Issues Different Points Of View

Author:Mary Travers

“I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.”

People Wells Would Be Night White Party Singing Raised Fifty Apartment Josh Weavers

Author:Mary Travers

“If you're serious about singing or acting, which are two art forms that get repetitive, the way to keep the music fresh is to recognize that it is totally impossible for it to ever be the same, night after night. You open your mouth and you'd like a certain sound to come out of it, but it doesn't always come out exactly like you thought it was going to come out!”

Ifs Way Art Two Form Night Certain Sound Acting Impossible Serious Like You Singing Mouths Repetitive

Author:Mary Travers

“It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.”

Years Feelings Today Lasts Given Garden Window Miracle Incredibles Hospitals Last Year Fabulous

Author:Mary Travers

“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.”

Wisdom Beautiful Beauty Type Thousand Ugly

Book:Dramas

Source: Dramas

“Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.”

People Humans Moments Together Social Human Beings Millions That Moment Quarters Social Change

Author:Mary Travers

“Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.”

“The fact that there are singer-songwriters dealing with substantive issues is encouraging. It's important for young people to perceive that there are acceptable avenues of dissent, because we live in a world where dissent is hard-pressed; treated as if it were unpatriotic. I've always liked the concept of the loyal opposition. It allows for dissent to be a respectable part of the whole.”

People Ifs World Important Hard Whole Facts Young Issues Concepts Singers Treated Perceive Opposition Acceptable Loyal Songwriters Avenues Dissent Respectable Singer Songwriters Unpatriotic

Author:Mary Travers

“There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.”

Thinking Able Together Certain Order Gone Groups Amount Relate Tubes

Author:Mary Travers