Folk Quotes
496 quotes by 396 authors
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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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
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
— Theodor Adorno
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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
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
— John Buchan
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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
— Noam Chomsky
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
— Andrew Young
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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
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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
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Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
— Walter Scott
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Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.
— Milton Berle
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Folk Quotes
396 authors contributed a total of 496 Folk Quotes, led by these top contributors: