Folk Quotes

496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics — Hunter S. Thompson
It's a folk singers job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people — Woody Guthrie
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. — M. F. Husain
Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll… — Johnny Ramone
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. And… — Arlo Guthrie
Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a… — Christopher Guest
Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a… — Steve Lawson
Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the… — Grayson Perry
'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me,… — Lewis Carroll
It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of… — Barry McGuire
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival… — Graham Coxon
I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have… — Mark Knopfler
The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects… — Randy Bachman
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. — Alan Parsons
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to… — Roger McGuinn
Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music. — Warren Zevon
It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They… — Ronnie Wood
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except… — Terri Windling
It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in… — Ann Wilson
A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of creativity as a… — Michael Dummett
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed… — Tom Chapin
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I… — Lanford Wilson
We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk… — Anatoly Berezovoy
When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music,… — Jackson Browne
I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.. — Ani DiFranco

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383 authors contributed a total of 496 Folk Quotes, led by these top contributors: