Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people. — Hank Williams Copy Share Image
We have to preserve folk in its authenticity. Else folk will become fake. — Hamsalekha Copy Share Image
A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you. — Ruston Kelly Copy Share Image
It's a folk singers job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance. — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe… — Ed Droste Copy Share Image
“We’re landing in five minutes everyone.’ He spoke firmly, with conviction.‘ Let’s give these nice folk something to talk about.” — Christopher Byford Copy Share Image
When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers. — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
The thing is, I was more blues-oriented, more of a purist than in the pop world. That led me into a folk… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion,… — Jim Messina Copy Share Image
It's just so obscure to take a folk song in a different language and be a pretty well-respected English-speaking rock band and… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground.… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
“While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that… — Jack E. Weller Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist.… — Richie Havens 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
I live in Nashville, and I don't know how many people there would call me country. I really started in punk and… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
Just because you're a solo artist playing guitar, that doesn't make it folk. People get a bit confused about these things. There's… — Marika Hackman 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
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
“Naten s'kisha gjume, me mbyste pendimi, kot thone qe pendimi te lehteson.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.' — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
