Local Legends Quotes

Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands.

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.

All my father's stories were about our mountain, our valley, our jagged little patch of Idaho.

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.

A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'

I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.

I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.

What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.

This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players.

Houston is just where the whole swag comes from, the culture. We have some of the most legendary groups and people coming out the city. I know I have big shoes to fill because these people are legends. I don't want to disappoint the city.

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.

I am basically a folk singer because I'm coming from a part of the earth where folklore means a lot. The Mediterranean is a very old part of the world, and the more a place is old, the more there is folklore.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.

They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.

I feel like I have to put on for my city, because we have so many legends and so many greats.

I think derbies are really special because it's two local teams playing.

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.