All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Jane Grey

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.
Ray Stannard Baker

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
Roger McGuinn

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.
Christopher Dawson

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

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Allan Massie

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
Brownie McGhee

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

Folk is bare bones music.
Ben Harper

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

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
Alan Parsons

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.
Matthew Sweet

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.
John Fahey

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
Edward Thorndike

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
Alice Hoffman

I always thought I was singing American folk music.
Lonnie Donegan

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