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
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking… — Roger McGuinn 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
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
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
Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the… — Tom Lehrer 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
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
Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar… — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
As I was born and brought up in Himachal Pradesh, I used to listen to a lot of Hindi songs over radio… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the… — Alan Lomax 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/quotes/img-quotes/59e/pete-seeger-1942_actors_he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-t_1712245.jpg)
