#si

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. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#changed #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #commercial

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#church #could #had #i #loud

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix. ↗

— Noel Redding

#hendrix #i #now #people #playing

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#african #african american #allowed #american #before

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#comes #consider #different #extract #history

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#because #business #death #doing #gentle

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#entire #even #note #single #song

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes! ↗

— Noel Redding

#got #knowing #once #point #record

Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically. ↗

— Noel Redding

#day #first #songs #three #through

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#always #easy #fact #guess #hindsight