Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian… — Jeannette Walls
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee… — Northrop Frye
The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if… — Rachel Maddow
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. — Joanna Newsom
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord… — Joanna Newsom
I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk. — Nick Offerman
My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible. — Kal Penn
To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful. — Kal Penn
The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about… — Jason Calacanis
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and… — Cat Power
Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges… — Bev Perdue
Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama? — Rob Portman
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing. — Sam Palladio
Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard. — Erik Qualman
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
But the reality is that we are a folk band. — Amy Ray
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same,… — John Shelton Reed
I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it. — Lara Spencer
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry… — Sonja Sohn
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I… — Gary Larson
I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do… — Joshua Leonard
When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you… — Jason Sudeikis
The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all… — Jerry Saltz
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. — Michael Storm
I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth. — Ricky Skaggs

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