Folk Quotes

496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors

As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the… — Ava DuVernay
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. — Marcus Aurelius
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. — George Bernard Shaw
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The… — John Greenleaf Whittier
I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a… — Steve Winwood
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it… — Neil Gaiman
There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories… — Neil Gaiman
A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because… — Stone Gossard
I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm… — Ellie Goulding
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters. — Bear Grylls
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools… — Francesco Guicciardini
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking… — Alice Cooper
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. — Roald Dahl
I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool.… — Evan Davis
Hip-hop is the last true folk art. — Mos Def
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through… — Ani DiFranco
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. — Ani DiFranco
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs. — Matt Dillon
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. — Bob Dylan
Folk music is a bunch of fat people. — Bob Dylan
I never saw myself as a folk singer. — Bob Dylan
I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV. — Jenny Eclair
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. — William Feather
I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union. — Vera Farmiga

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