Cities Quote by Vera Nazarian

I guess what I find interesting is city folk are the least capable of survival of any human being.

— Andrew Schulz

Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money…

— Will Sheff

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music.…

— Pat Metheny

I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young man, I…

— Chris Thile

I have very eclectic tastes. I love soul and Motown; I listen to some rap - Stormzy, Tinie Tempah, Drake. I also love classical…

— David Lammy

I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot…

— Oscar Isaac

“They change what they do not like,’ said Jessold, referring to the singers. ‘And they do not like what they cannot remember. That accounts…

— Wesley Stace

We Brits are law abiding folk. We pride ourselves on our natural tendency to form an orderly queue rather than a scrum.

— Nick Boles

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

— P. J. O'Rourke

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

— Charlie Adam

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music,…

— Jill Stein

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

— Terry Pratchett

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it…

— Al Stewart

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

— Sam Hinton

I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No…

— Tyler Hilton