Top 6 Alan Lomax Quotes (2025 Update)

Alan Lomax Quote: “Folk Music is the map of singing.”

2. “The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.”

— Alan Lomax

3. “The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.”

— Alan Lomax

4. “People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.”

— Alan Lomax

5. “And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.”

— Alan Lomax

6. “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.”

— Alan Lomax

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