Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs. — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them. — Big Bill Broonzy Copy Share Image
I have many vivid memories of listening to the folk songs in my village. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where… — Jihae Copy Share Image
I guess fusion would be the best way to describe my music. I think it also goes into the spectrum of electronic… — Vidya Vox Copy Share Image
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way. — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
“Hah!" said Granny Weatherwax. "I should just say it is a folk song! I knows all about folk songs. Hah! You think… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival."… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and… — Alan Freed Copy Share Image
Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM,… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his… — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“She was heading for the piano, and something told me that it was her intention to sing old folk songs, a pastime… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“He knew everything. He knew at least a thousand Hungarian folk songs, all the words and tunes, he could handle Gypsies, give… — Dezső Kosztolányi Copy Share Image
“I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Long ago, when New York City was affordable, people who felt they didn’t fit into the mainstream could take a chance and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera. — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. — Big Bill Broonzy Copy Share Image
Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people. — Hank Williams Copy Share Image
I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me. — Hyuna Copy Share Image
![“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio…” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/59e/pete-seeger-1942_actors_he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-t_1712245.jpg)
