Folk Quotes

496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead! — Stokely Carmichael
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others. — Moliere
If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich… — Lewis Black
Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the… — Jeanne Achterberg
There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown. — Charlie Munger
It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is… — Kurt Weill
Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is! — Michelle Shocked
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along… — Barry McGuire
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example,… — Jez Butterworth
I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock. — Jane Siberry
Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.. — John Betjeman
The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to… — Adolf Hitler
Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced. — Serj Tankian
Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning for… — Berl Katznelson
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the… — J. Frank Dobie
Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art, — Mulgrew Miller
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another. — Unknown Author
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting… — Israel Zangwill
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay… — John Barth
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian… — Jeannette Walls
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee… — Northrop Frye
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. — Joanna Newsom
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord… — Joanna Newsom
I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk. — Nick Offerman
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and… — Cat Power

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