Folk Quotes

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

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. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

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 progressions are obvious references.

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.