Folk Quotes

496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors

Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young?… — Erich Maria Remarque
It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile… — Vissarion Belinsky
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. — Paul Whiteman
The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must… — Henrik Ibsen
All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them.… — Aubrey Beardsley
Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes.… — Linda Ronstadt
Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling… — George Gershwin
I came late to the genre of folk music. — Tom Morello
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny… — Tom Morello
In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing.… — Terry Rossio
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety,… — Frederic Chopin
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get… — Christopher Dawson
That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all, the privileges of… — Margaret Thatcher
The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could. — Joan of Arc
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical… — Bela Bartok
Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to… — Auberon Waugh
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or… — James Kelman
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child — Stephen Stills
Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition. — Mary Travers
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the… — Stephen Leacock
I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if… — Cat Stevens
In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the… — Unknown Author
Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and… — Cornel West

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