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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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Warren Zevon
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Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
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Chelsea Yarbro
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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
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Robert Wyatt
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It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
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Ron Wood
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I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
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Terri Windling
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Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.
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Ann Wilson
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It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.
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Ann Wilson
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Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
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Paul Whiteman
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Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
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Edward Thorndike
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You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
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Sonny Terry
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He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.
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Matthew Sweet
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When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.
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Michael Storm
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Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!
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Angie Stone
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I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
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Stephen Stills
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I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
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Bruce Springsteen
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Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
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Dick Smothers
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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Tavis Smiley
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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Carly Simon
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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Katey Sagal
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I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.
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Gene Robinson
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At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
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Bernice Reagon
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I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
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Cynthia Payne
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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
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Alan Parsons
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I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
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Joanna Newsom
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I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
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Joanna Newsom
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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Van Morrison
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There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
Author:
Moliere
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When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.
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Jim Messina
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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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H. Mencken
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It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
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Barry McGuire
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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Barry McGuire
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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
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Roger McGuinn
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Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
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Brownie McGhee
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Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
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Brownie McGhee
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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Author:
Allan Massie
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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
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Alan Lomax
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The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.
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Eugene Levy
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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
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Nathan Lane
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Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.
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Judge Lane
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I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.
Author:
Mark Knopfler
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My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Author:
Mark Knopfler
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The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.
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David Knopfler
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The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
Author:
Nigel Kneale
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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Alice Hoffman
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They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
Author:
Alice Hoffman
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My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
Author:
Dan Hicks
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Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.
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Donal Henahan
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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Ben Harper
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Folk is bare bones music.
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Ben Harper
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Thomas Hardy
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The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.
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George Grove
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All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
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Jane Grey
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We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.
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Adolph Green
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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.
Author:
Tom Glazer
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Author:
Neil Gaiman
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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
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Marie France
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Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.
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Steve Forbert
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
Author:
Carlisle Floyd
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I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.
Author:
Mick Fleetwood
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The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
Author:
Leslie Fiedler
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
Author:
William Feather
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How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.
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John Fahey
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I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.
Author:
John Fahey
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.
Author:
Richard Dooling
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I always thought I was singing American folk music.
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Lonnie Donegan
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I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
Author:
Anthony Doerr
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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.
Author:
Christopher Dawson
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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
Author:
Roald Dahl
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My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
Author:
David Crosby
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The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
Author:
Hart Crane
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I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
Author:
Graham Coxon
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It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
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Bernard Cornwell
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It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.
Author:
Tom Chapin
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There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
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Eugene Chadbourne
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
Author:
Jackson Browne
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Author:
Jackson Browne
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I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.
Author:
Big Broonzy
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There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
Author:
Ernest Bevin
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
Author:
Daisy Berkowitz
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Author:
Randy Bachman
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My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
Author:
Johannes Bach
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Author:
Louis Armstrong
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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
Author:
Piers Anthony
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
Author:
Piers Anthony
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
