Folk Quotes

496 quotes by 396 authors

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. — Johann Sebastian Bach
If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the… — Joan Baez
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. — Theodor Adorno
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music. — Bono
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. — Noam Chomsky
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic… — Ian Anderson
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the… — Piers Anthony
I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a… — Leon Wagner
One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a… — H. L. Mencken
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk. — Andrew Young
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive… — Harry Chapin
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially. — Jerome K. Jerome
Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. — Walter Scott
Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. — Milton Berle
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something… — H. L. Mencken
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak… — Bertolt Brecht

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