Folk Quotes

496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional,… — Renee Fleming
Some folk want their luck buttered. — Thomas Hardy
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. — Ben Harper
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew… — Ben Harper
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish,… — Salma Hayek
Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I… — Janis Ian
I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. — Katherine Jenkins
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. — Mark Knopfler
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. — Ray LaMontagne
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. — Anne Lamott
I love folk; that's a big part of my background. — Amy Lee
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. — John Lydon
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only really happy folk are married women and single men. — H. L. Mencken
I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. — Joni Mitchell
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live. — Moliere
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. — Van Morrison
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has… — Susan Orlean
There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics. — Robert Plant
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture -… — Bonnie Raitt
I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues… — Bonnie Raitt
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk… — Bonnie Raitt
Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk. — John C. Reilly
Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a… — John C. Reilly
You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We… — Eric Ries

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