“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" -… — Sherry Marie Gallagher Copy Share Image
I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I'm a touring musician. I don't watch the charts. I had the kind of success I'd hoped for. I won Grammys for… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original… — Christopher Anderson Copy Share Image
“Po ç'pune ke ti, mor zoteri, me çizmet e mia te shqyera dhe me berrylat e mi te grisur?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing, or you like something really… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an… — Skylar Grey 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
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
For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
We detested folk music because it was cerebral and sedate and we had no time for that. But the Byrds were OK… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales,… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools.… — Vicki Sue Robinson Copy Share Image
And it's all just from word of mouth. No big marketing. That means the folk who come to the gigs are there… — Gerry Cinnamon Copy Share Image
Folk has always been the mainstay of Indian music; we're very soulful people, and we like the sound of our soil. — KK Copy Share Image
I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe. — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
“Have you ever listened to folk music? Let's face it, a lot of folk music is all about dead sailors, mad witches,… — Marie Browne Copy Share Image
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
'Meri Odhe Naal' is a traditional Punjabi song and our constant endeavor is to traditionally urbanize the folk sound and bring it… — Neha Bhasin Copy Share Image
You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music.… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on. — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of… — Maria Karnilova Copy Share Image
We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do. — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge… — William Langland Copy Share Image
People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Seabear's love of soft folk sounds is unquestionable, but that doesn't stop the Icelandic band from infusing its music with layers of… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
If you're in a garage band, it's about being better than the band in the next-door garage. But in the folk tradition,… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
“Innerst inne vill folk ha mulattbarn. Alla samma utblandade fadda plusminusnoll-människa.” — Sami Said Copy Share Image
Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are. — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
