Top 1180 Folk Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.
After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
I will try just about all the folk food we go to in any place.
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.
I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.
Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.
We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.
Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.
For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.
India is full of varied cultures that have introduced different kinds of folk tunes to us.
I would love to be one of those fellows who combine formal and folk music approaches.
I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.
Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults.
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.
I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.
I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented.
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.
I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.
When I play on my fiddle in Dooney
Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.
I started learning Bharatnatyam from the age of three. I have also learnt folk dance.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.
I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk.
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.
Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.
What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool.
When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.
I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'
Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.
Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.
Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.
The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
