Folk Quotes · Page 5

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

— Michael Penn

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

— Phoebe Snow

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

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

— Limmy

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

— Jay Michaelson

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

— Angel Olsen

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

— Nick Boles

“Folk tror, man kan opnå det evige liv ved at motionere. Det eneste, man bliver, er forpustet.”

— Bjarne Reuter

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got.…

— Jess Row

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been…

— William Gibson

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea…

— Teddy Thompson

You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really…

— Roger McGuinn

I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this…

— Mark Knopfler

I was addicted to rhythm 'n' blues pretty much directly into folk music. I had my little 45s of mostly black artists.…

— Joan Baez

Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system.…

— Utah Phillips

“Eshte e mire letersia, Varenjka, shume e mire eshte. U binda diten e trete te vizitave. Gje me peshe. Ua forcon zemren…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

India is full of varied cultures that have introduced different kinds of folk tunes to us.

— Tulsi Kumar

Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.

— Maggie Rogers

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

— Greg Graffin

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

— Ray LaMontagne

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

— Stephen Stills

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before…

— Kent Haruf

Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk…

— Charlie Adam

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.

— Robert Gottlieb

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

— Neha Bhasin

I was wearing leather studded jackets, but I was playing acoustic folk music, so it was quite a weird mix.

— Nina Nesbitt

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of…

— Sam Palladio

Though I always experimented with electronic music in the past, I wasn't invested in that sound. My heart has always been in…

— Domino Kirke

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

— Stephen Mangan

“And of a Sunday swarm the folk Under the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody,…

— Théophile Gautier

Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music.

— Rupi Kaur

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

A lot of European folk music has this interesting, intriguing quality, a whole new harmonic way of thinking.

— Bear McCreary

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

— Pete Seeger

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem.…

— Nico Mirallegro

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music…

— Pete Seeger

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

— Roger McGuinn

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

— Roger McGuinn

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

— Mary Travers

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version…

— Cat Stevens