Folk Quotes · Page 5

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

— Sam Walton

I've always loved Country, folk, and the acoustic end of music.

— John Waite

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

— John Lydon

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..

— John Betjeman

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

— Donal Henahan

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

— Fritz Lang

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

— Rosanne Cash

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

— Sufjan Stevens

“The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans.”

— Stephen Baxter

I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.

— Hyuna

I'm a touring musician. I don't watch the charts. I had the kind of success I'd hoped for. I won Grammys for…

— Shawn Colvin

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

— Mat Kearney

“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" -…

— Sherry Marie Gallagher

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

— Jay Michaelson

It's fine if folk don't like my sense of humour. But if somebody misunderstands, then that hurts a bit.

— Limmy

If folk is the music of the common people and not the intellectual elite, then that's what rock is.

— Michael Penn

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music…

— Langhorne Slim

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think…

— Johnny Ramone

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That…

— Arlo Guthrie

The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on…

— Mary Travers

I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are…

— Oscar Isaac

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers…

— Michelle Dockery

Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of…

— Mary Travers

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the…

— Paul Robeson

If I was as ugly as you were, I wouldnt say Hi to folk, Id say BOO!

— Babloo

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

— Louis Armstrong

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

— Charlie Adam

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

— Will Self

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

— Robert Plant

I will try just about all the folk food we go to in any place.

— Darryl Dawkins

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

— Michael Bastian

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

— Steve Forbert

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

— Joni Mitchell

I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist.

— John Martyn

We say Black lives matter, but a lot of white folks don't know Black folk.

— Jonathan Majors

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

— Bob Dylan

“Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.”

— Anonymous

There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.

— Rhiannon Giddens

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

— Alison Goldfrapp