Folk Quotes

496 Folk quotes by 383 unique authors

The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska. — Douglas Coupland
Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed… — David Eugene Edwards
No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or… — Kelly Link
I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really… — John Prine
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and… — Alan Freed
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk… — Bela Fleck
Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with… — David Rakoff
Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one! — Clifford Bax
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at… — Gavyn Davies
I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians,… — Herbert
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the… — Mike Harding
We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads… — Nikola Tesla
We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and… — Mark E. Smith
When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of… — Arlene Croce
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet. — E. V. Lucas
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. — Sivananda
People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because… — Idries Shah
That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to… — Benh Zeitlin
We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel,… — Mavis Staples
I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who… — Ernest Gellner
The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens… — Arthur Miller
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The… — Noam Chomsky
I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and… — Alasdair Gray
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by… — Bernice Johnson Reagon
Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities… — Richardson Wright

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