4 Quotes & Sayings By Fred Gipson

Fred Gipson is a novelist, songwriter, and artist who has published over 25 novels to date. After writing over 800 songs in the 1960's, Fred became known as "The Man with the Golden Ear" as he became the first person to track and record the music of the Navajo Nation. Fred now works as a freelance writer and editor for several different publications as well as plays the guitar and plays all of his own instruments such as lap steel, banjo, mandolin and acoustic guitar.

1
Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that to your folks. All they'll do is point out how much bigger you are, how unfair it is to your little brother. Fred Gipson
2
That was as rough a thing as I ever heard tell of happening to a boy. And I'm mighty proud to learn how my boy stood up to it. You couldn't ask any more of a grown man.. It's not a thing you can forget. I don't guess it's a thing you ought to forget. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem mighty cruel and unfair, but that's how life is part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad. Fred Gipson
3
... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids. Fred Gipson