Work Song Quotes

“For as long as there are men and women, some things in life will best be done arm in arm, and strolling in a flower garden is one.”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“It takes a collector to know a collector, even if you do stack your treasures in your head instead of out on a shelf.”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“In Montana, it is a good idea to keep your hat on your head so the wind doesn’t blow your hair off.”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“The music of men’s lives’ isn’t as easy to recognize as the average fool thinks,”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“my stints of employment had been eaten away by the acid of boredom, the drip-by-drip sameness of a job causing my mind to yawn and sneak off elsewhere.”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“on a ranch I believe I would have been called the choreboy.”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“THERE ARE MOMENTS in a lifetime when you can taste history as it is happening. When the flavor of time, from one hour to the next, somehow is not quite the same as any day before.”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“America in that agitated time; not merely a nation, but something like a continental nervous condition.”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“A song says something to us that we can’t hear in any other way. There is a kind of magic to it. Music does not simply soothe the savage breast, it reaches to our better nature, wouldn’t we all agree?”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“I figured if you’re a man who knows his books, you can deal with the literary types who come out when the moon is full.”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“People always want to use this damn place, they need a room to hold this meeting or that, you’d think a library was a big beehive. Myself, I don’t see why they can’t just check out a couple of books and go home and read. But no, they bunch up and want to cram in here and talk the ears off one another half the night.”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“I happily stepped into that role of librarian as bartender of information. Presiding over shelves of intoxicating items, dispensing whatever brand of knowledge was ordered up, I am sure I poured generously.”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song

“IN THE BOOK OF LIFE we are chapters in one another’s stories,”
― Ivan Doig, Work Song