Folk is bare bones music.

There was a time when I just didn't have the opportunities, which meant going without things in my life - whether it was clothes,…

— Susan Kelechi Watson

We always do kinda like the bare bones representation or variation of the voice and drums, which is what we feel is the foundation…

— Black Thought

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

— Karen Allen

it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics...

— Sarah Dessen

I'm interested in how the bare bones of the planet, things that aren't alive, are transformed into things that are alive.

— Hope Jahren

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

— Herbert Hoover

“Bare Bones? Oh, there were a few of you in the joint. Nice guys. Leastways, someone must’ve told them to be nice to me,…

— Layla Wolfe

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so…

— John Merrow

Pat Summerall personified less is more. His play-by-play was so bare bones but so great because he had a great, deep-toned voice.

— Joe Buck

Now I have other demands on my time that are not flexible, I just can't wander into the studio at 2 A.M. like I…

— Jamie Cullum

Life's bare as a bone.

— Virginia Woolf

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

— Ben Harper

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

— Terry Pratchett

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it…

— Al Stewart

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

— Sam Hinton