Folk Quotes

496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares. — Tom Lehrer
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty,… — Tom Glazer
Folk is bare bones music. — Ben Harper
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. — Ben Harper
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional… — PJ Harvey
I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore. — Amos Lee
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run… — Brownie McGhee
We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor. — Jack Kemp
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s. — Carly Simon
From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. — Marilyn Manson
Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want… — Dar Williams
If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each… — Kevin Rudd
I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week. — Cynthia Payne
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. — Black Francis
Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them… — Wilfred Trotter
And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen. — William Shakespeare
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz,… — Steve Winwood
It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in… — Asger Jorn
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we… — Jack Zipes
I have but one thought in my heart for the young folk of the Church and that is that they be happy. I know of… — David
God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do… — Charles Baudelaire
I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to… — Steven Sater
After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for… — Marshall Brickman

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