“My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.” PeopleWantKindSoulFeelingsSongRocksMusic IsRootsChickensSoupGood FeelingChicken Soup Author:Kate Voegele
“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.” ThinkingStoriesDreamRememberMotherSongDiesBornSleepGrowingBrokenBedShadowRootsHealedOld SongSleep And DreamBroken Images Author:Meinrad Craighead
“Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.” BookSongFoodRootsKitchenAncestor Author:Anna Thomas
“The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.” IfsNeedsWritingSeemsSongInformationPaintingRootsMirrorsMereSentencesRealistImpart Author:Colm Toibin
“The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?” RealSongRootsDetailsDucksFoxesGeeseReal Questions Author:Chris Thile
“When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them.” WayWritingFirstsCountrySongChanceAudienceRootsStartingCivicsStarting OutHonda Author:Eric Hutchinson