Folks Quote by Robert Wyatt

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to…

— John Desmond Bernal

The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain…

— Vivian Gornick

Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby…

— Pete Seeger

I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap.…

— Langhorne Slim

I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool.

— Mary Gauthier

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

— Woody Guthrie

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

— Billy Connolly

It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch - they're…

— Johnny Flynn

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to…

— Loudon Wainwright III

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the…

— Langhorne Slim

At one stage, I wanted to be a folk singer.

— Roger Allam