I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. — Big Bill Broonzy Copy Share Image
Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people. — Hank Williams 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
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
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne 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
some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a… — Sam Amidon 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
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
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
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
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
“They staggered and stumbled, wounded but triumphant, singing the old Welsh folk song “Ar Lan y Môr.” And if there was something… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's… — John Prine Copy Share Image
When I was applying for a central government scholarship to study an art form, I saw that there was space to write… — Rohini Hattangadi Copy Share Image
My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them… — Chris Cornell 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
It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry… — Nick Lowe 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
“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
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 [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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs. — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I have many vivid memories of listening to the folk songs in my village. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
I have sung as many as 6,000 songs of various hues, be they classical, pop or folk songs. I have even performed… — Asha Bhosle 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)
