There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I have many vivid memories of listening to the folk songs in my village. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them. — Big Bill Broonzy Copy Share Image
Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs. — Alasdair MacLean 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
If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of… — Pete Seeger 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
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
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
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
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
A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
“You have to know a lot of songs to cook the way our ancestors cooked. The songs are like clocks with spells.… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song… — William Clark Green Copy Share Image
There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk… — Joe Perry 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
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
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
Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM,… — Alasdair MacLean 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
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
“She was heading for the piano, and something told me that it was her intention to sing old folk songs, a pastime… — P.G. Wodehouse 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
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 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
“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
“Long ago, when New York City was affordable, people who felt they didn’t fit into the mainstream could take a chance and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people. — Hank Williams Copy Share Image
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. — Big Bill Broonzy 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
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
![“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/i/59e/pete-seeger-1942_actors_he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-t_1712245.jpg)
