"I was reared on folk music." — Rufus Wainwright

More Folk Quotes

This quote is filed under Folk Quotes, one of 496 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
• My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. — Johann Sebastian Bach
• If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label… — Joan Baez
• Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire
• Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. — Theodor Adorno
• What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes… — Bono
• Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan
• Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. — Noam Chomsky
• When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk… — Ian Anderson
• Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie… — Piers Anthony
• I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their… — Unknown Author
• One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their… — H. L. Mencken

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