Folk Quotes · Page 7

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

— Stephen Mangan

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer…

— Patty Griffin

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music…

— Pete Seeger

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem.…

— Nico Mirallegro

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

— Pete Seeger

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music.

— Rupi Kaur

A lot of European folk music has this interesting, intriguing quality, a whole new harmonic way of thinking.

— Bear McCreary

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music…

— Matthew Sweet

I love vocals and what they can do, and the different layers they can create, and I really want to bring that…

— Avi Kaplan

Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a…

— James Nesbitt

“They change what they do not like,’ said Jessold, referring to the singers. ‘And they do not like what they cannot remember.…

— Wesley Stace

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about…

— Jerry Garcia

I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing…

— Tyler Hilton

A good folk song tells you something you already know, in a form you're already familiar with, on terms that were set…

— David Means

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk…

— Bono

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

— Angel Olsen

We Brits are law abiding folk. We pride ourselves on our natural tendency to form an orderly queue rather than a scrum.

— Nick Boles

Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything.

— Shreya Ghoshal

When I was small - I grew up in a village outside of Krakow - my brothers and sisters and I would…

— Joanna Kulig

“Folk tror, man kan opnå det evige liv ved at motionere. Det eneste, man bliver, er forpustet.”

— Bjarne Reuter

My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.

— Michael Bacon

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

— Harvey Gantt

India is full of varied cultures that have introduced different kinds of folk tunes to us.

— Tulsi Kumar

Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.

— Maggie Rogers

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

— Karen Chance

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

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

I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is…

— Mitski

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

— Pete Seeger

Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar…

— Kemp Muhl

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

— Dave Alvin

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

— Nathan Lane

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

— Billy Connolly

I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk.

— Gopi Sundar

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

— Phoebe Snow

If folk is the music of the common people and not the intellectual elite, then that's what rock is.

— Michael Penn

It's fine if folk don't like my sense of humour. But if somebody misunderstands, then that hurts a bit.

— Limmy

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

— Jay Michaelson