“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
Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because… — John Lennon 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
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
“I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them. — Big Bill Broonzy Copy Share Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John… — Quentin Tarantino 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
“Yours is much worse than Eastern! You’ve slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of… — George Gershwin 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
I have many vivid memories of listening to the folk songs in my village. — Devi Sri Prasad 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 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
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
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
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it… — David Soul Copy Share Image
The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace… — Cecil Williams 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
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
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
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne 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
