Folk Song Quotes

11 Folk Song quotes by 11 unique authors

• Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk… — Bruce Hornsby
• It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song. Instead… — Scott Avett
• If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song — Oscar Isaac
• People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and… — Alan Lomax
• Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning… — Paul Robeson
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. — Black Francis
• Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a 5 K race.… — George Clooney

Who Wrote These Folk Song Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 11 Folk Song Quotes as follows:

• 1 Folk Song Quote by Tom Lehrer
• 1 Folk Song Quote by Scott Avett
• 1 Folk Song Quote by Paul Robeson
• 1 Folk Song Quote by Oscar Isaac
• 1 Folk Song Quote by John Prine
• 1 Folk Song Quote by George Clooney
• 1 Folk Song Quote by David Eugene Edwards
• 1 Folk Song Quote by Bruce Hornsby
• 1 Folk Song Quote by Black Francis
• 1 Folk Song Quote by Bernice Johnson Reagon
• 1 Folk Song Quote by Alan Lomax