Folks Quotes · Page 7

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

— Mos Def

“Some folks pray on it. Me? I write about it.”

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

— Anonymous

“else are folks going to do around here? We need”

— Anne Marsh

Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death.

— John Hiatt

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

— Willard Scott

Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art,

— Mulgrew Miller

Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.

— Frank Zappa

This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't…

— George Strait

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

— Robert Southey

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

— Charles Dickens

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but…

— Rick Danko

Ideally, we date the folks who are dating for the same reason we are.

— Amanda Seales

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

— Arthur Kleinman

Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It's healthy.

— Alan Robert

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

— Cass McCombs

Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here…

— Bill Kreutzmann

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making…

— Steven Johnson

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is…

— Alice Childress

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think…

— Johnny Ramone

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my…

— Joni Mitchell

Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a…

— LaTanya Richardson

I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that…

— Ava DuVernay

Now there's going to be some decisions [Donald Trump] is going to have to make as president regarding those folks, and I…

— Chris Christie

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my…

— Will Rogers

I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and…

— Louie Gohmert

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a…

— David J. Schwartz

Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there…

— Kate Bornstein

I'm sure a lot of the hardcore folks are going to be up in arms and I'm really looking forward to getting…

— Warren Spector

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible…

— Stephen King

So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary…

— Alan K. Simpson

They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't…

— George Carlin

Folks talk too fast, and don't understand what they talkin' about.

— Son House

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

— Orson Scott Card

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

— Amos Lee

“There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.”

— Louis Armstrong

Folks, it's okay to find flamboyant homosexuality funny.

— Steven Crowder

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

— Dick Gregory

I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.

— Peter Diamandis

I want folks to take horror seriously.

— Paul G. Tremblay