Devil Sent the Rain Quotes

“You know, you can have a purse full of money, but a person full of nothing.”
― Tom Piazza, Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America

“occasionally corrosive sense of nostalgia for The Way Things Were Back Home—either back in the cabin, or Down South below the Mason-Dixon Line—somewhere back, back, before it all got industrialized and built up, before the innocence was lost.”
― Tom Piazza, Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America

“The endless American dynamic: Strain at the leash, transform yourself into something unrecognizable, burn off the old, claim every possibility for yourself—contain, as Whitman suggested, multitudes—then memorialize the past that you have killed to pay for all that possibility. The more resolutely you have murdered it, in fact, the more sentimental you will be about it.”
― Tom Piazza, Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America