If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing. — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound. — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
Though I always experimented with electronic music in the past, I wasn't invested in that sound. My heart has always been in… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation. — Neha Bhasin Copy Share Image
I was wearing leather studded jackets, but I was playing acoustic folk music, so it was quite a weird mix. — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk… — Charlie Adam Copy Share Image
“There are those among the Folk so hideous that all living things shrink back in horror. And yet others have a grotesquerie… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I… — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence.… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. — Dick Smothers Copy Share Image
I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
What's quite nice about this whole folk movement is that it's born out of genuine friendship. And nobody's infringing on anybody's space. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
“Hah!" said Granny Weatherwax. "I should just say it is a folk song! I knows all about folk songs. Hah! You think… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival."… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to a lot of Simon & Garfunkel and Peter, Paul and Mary. I know that sounds dorky, but… — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only… — Benjamin Todd Jealous Copy Share Image
When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Black folk have been 'the other' in shows and movies and in life for quite a long time. Not from our perspective,… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
