Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

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
Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land? — Stevie Wonder
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death. — John Hiatt
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
Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die. — Frank Zappa
The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created… — Saxby Chambliss
We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide. — Eddie Cochran
I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles... — Alan Jackson
Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on. — Ludacris
The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's… — Tom Lehrer
I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction. — Stedman Graham
One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They… — Robert M. Gates
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty,… — Tom Glazer
Folk is bare bones music. — Ben Harper
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. — Ben Harper
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional… — PJ Harvey
Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on… — Steven Johnson
I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a… — Julian McMahon
When Americans are called on to innovate, that's what we do - whether it's making more fuel-efficient cars or more fuel-efficient appliances, or making sure… — Barack Obama
Folks say I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what it means. — Mac Davis
Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently. — Daryn Kagan
I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore. — Amos Lee
I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got… — Alberta Hunter
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run… — Brownie McGhee
We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor. — Jack Kemp

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