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Otley Folk Music - Events listing, contact details, and information about Otley Folk festival.
Otley Music Guide - Listings of performances, performers, venues, teachers, services, and live events in the town of Otley.
Otley Folk Festival - Details of artists, programme and facilities. Includes reports and photos of previous year's festival. (in September, annually)
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Music The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Music Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Music Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Music "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Music It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Music "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Music Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex Music Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Music If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Music It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Music "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Music "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Music Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Music "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Music The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician Music Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Music "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Music "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Music You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous Music Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Music We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Music
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