Folk Songs Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them. — Big Bill Broonzy
If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs… — Bob Dylan
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage… — David Soul
Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of… — Garrison Keillor
Rock â€™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
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
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
Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious. And… — Arlo Guthrie
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to… — Roger McGuinn
We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk… — Anatoly Berezovoy
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world â€”â€”- the cowboy songs of Texas and the… — J. Frank Dobie
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected… — Jimmy Reid
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to… — Dan Auerbach
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done.… — Justin Townes Earle
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
You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you. — Terry Pratchett
There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort… — Unknown Author
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way. — Shawn Amos
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. — Big Bill Broonzy

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