Folk Quotes
496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors
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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
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
— Moliere
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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
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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
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There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.
— Charlie Munger
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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
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Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
— Michelle Shocked
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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
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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
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I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.
— Jane Siberry
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Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..
— John Betjeman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art,
— Mulgrew Miller
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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
— Joanna Newsom
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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
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I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.
— Nick Offerman
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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
Who Wrote These Folk Quotes
383 authors contributed a total of 496 Folk Quotes, led by these top contributors: