Folk Quotes

496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and… — Alan Lomax
You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close to him. But… — Unknown Author
The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the… — David Knopfler
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. — Edward Abbey
If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,--… — Paul Revere
My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from… — Dorothy Parker
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long… — Hart Crane
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional… — Wynton Marsalis
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of… — Pierre Bourdieu
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the… — Nigel Kneale
...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk. — Unknown Author
A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in… — Jerry Smith
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great… — Leonard Ravenhill
Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole… — Rose Fyleman
Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good… — Jack Donovan
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often… — Helen Simonson
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body… — Ketch Secor
The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of… — Marian Wright Edelman
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and… — Paul Robeson
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning… — Paul Robeson
Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of… — Garrison Keillor
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you… — David Crosby
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed… — George Lakoff
After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers. — Martin Luther
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. — John Lescroart

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