Folk Quotes · Page 5

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

— Terry Pratchett

Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.

— Hank Williams

We have to preserve folk in its authenticity. Else folk will become fake.

— Hamsalekha

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

— Mary Travers

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

— Paul Whiteman

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

— Bob Dylan

We say Black lives matter, but a lot of white folks don't know Black folk.

— Jonathan Majors

I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist.

— John Martyn

It is a part of us, film-makers and audiences; what we can't say with dialogues, we say with a song. We tell…

— Zoya Akhtar

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

— Brad Delson

I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got…

— Karunas

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas…

— Matt Dillon

Folk music is very honest, it's very humble, it's very organic, and the voice is exactly that. And so I'm very excited…

— Avi Kaplan

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so…

— Anne Waldman

“The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans.”

— Stephen Baxter

I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.

— Hyuna

I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I…

— Melora Hardin

It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do…

— Ice T

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to…

— Sonny Terry

I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless…

— Roger McGuinn

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we…

— Steven Sater

As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create…

— F. Sionil Jose

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what…

— Emilia Clarke

The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

“Lere pastaj qe ka dhe jo pak pasunare qe s'i pelqen te degjojne ankimet me ze te larte te varfanjakeve. Se, sigurisht,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Seven' is this kind of nostalgic, emotional folk song.

— Aaron Dessner

“Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.”

— Anonymous

There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.

— Rhiannon Giddens

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

— Alison Goldfrapp

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

— Laura Innes

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

— Noam Chomsky

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

— Amy Ray

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

— Paul Stookey

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

— Joanna Newsom

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.

— Big Bill Broonzy

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

— Ann Wilson

I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.

— Vance Joy

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

— Sufjan Stevens

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

— Fritz Lang

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

— Rosanne Cash