It's often the most frightened of folk who do the greatest…

“Love is the greatest of all deeds.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The greatest of all deeds is to love; love thy God and thy neighbour.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote…

— John Lennon

I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they're perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.

— Trixie Mattel

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

— Oscar Isaac

“They change what they do not like,’ said Jessold, referring to the singers. ‘And they do not like what they cannot remember. That accounts…

— Wesley Stace

We Brits are law abiding folk. We pride ourselves on our natural tendency to form an orderly queue rather than a scrum.

— Nick Boles

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Charlie Adam

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music,…

— Jill Stein

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

I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No…

— Tyler Hilton