Polka Quotes - Page 2

• Things just evolve.  I sort of have no control over what happens with the songs.  Sometimes I'm afraid I might wake up one morning with an entire record of polka songs.

  John Rzeznik

  Song, Morning, Wake Up

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• When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.

  Robert Benchley

  Sports, Exercise, Thinking

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• I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

  Serj Tankian

  Rocks, Track, Four

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Wall, Black, Capes

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• Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Unity, Body, Dots

  "Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Infinite Obsession’ Heads To Brazil" By Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Teenager, Cutting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Her entire body quivered. "What is it about me that you're attracted to?" "For starters, the sexy underwear you put on beneath your clothes." "You've only seen my underwear once." "Twice," he said. "I looked down your top at the pier." "You did not." "Pink-and-white polka-dot bra." "Oh my God." "That's what I was thinking." -Mallory and Ty

  Jill Shalvis

  Sexy, Thinking, White

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Jul 16, 2013

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• I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Dots, Underwear

  Source: bitesizecliftbar.tumblr.com

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• I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables, guns, hats, whatever - and then also printing sheets of patterns, colorful polka dots and line drawing patterns.

  Brian Chippendale

  Gun, Drawing, Creating

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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