Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Paxton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Tom Paxton.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Tom Paxton

Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning more than fifty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a music educator as well as an advocate for folk singers to combine traditional songs with new compositions.

Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing.
A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.
Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please. — © Tom Paxton
Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.
In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John Denver. I love to hear this man sing.
In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton’s songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!
As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.
Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.
Some people you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em.
Chris Chandler reminds me of my own self way back when - listen to him Now!
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