Folk songs Quote by Alasdair MacLean Download Open image “Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.” — Alasdair MacLean ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folk songs Music Scottish Song
Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground. The songs… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I have many vivid memories of listening to the folk songs in my village. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing. — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it.… — Roger McGuinn 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 listening to… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
When you're in a daze - whether it's from running or a hangover or whatever else - I think that ideas from your subconscious… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that we can… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these free-jazz records… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible and… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I think the music that's part of your heritage is what you spend a lot of your early life rejecting. The very idea of… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das Kapital over… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the problems with downloading mps these days. You never really get a chance to attune to a different logic,… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" -… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
“He knew everything. He knew at least a thousand Hungarian folk songs, all the words and tunes, he could handle Gypsies, give them instructions… — Dezső Kosztolányi Copy Share Image
Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them. — Big Bill Broonzy Copy Share Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' -… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
“Yours is much worse than Eastern! You’ve slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out some folk… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind,… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera. — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
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