Folk Quotes

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hesitation, Following, Fickle

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
Bob Dylan

Music, Interested, Somehow

I never saw myself as a folk singer.
Bob Dylan

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
Bob Dylan

Music, Fat, Bunch

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H. L. Mencken

Women, Men, Happy

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
Moliere

Live, Nothing, Passion

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

Music, Song, Horse

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

Art, Everything, Domination

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman

Work, Human, Might

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather

Experience, Wisdom, Wise

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek

Love, Music, History

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

Sense, Common, Obvious

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
Robert Plant

Between, African, Similarity

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
Susan Orlean

Feeling, Genius, Story

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Noam Chomsky

Art, Real, Culture

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

War, Young, Soldier

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
James Whistler

May, Cannot, Tell

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
Bruce Springsteen

Tradition, Narrative

Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas Hardy

Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'
John Podhoretz

Positive, Care, Political

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
Leslie Fiedler

Art, Different, Makes

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
Ani DiFranco

Music, Mean, Between

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'
Ani DiFranco

Music, Rock, Through

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman

Freedom, Made, Old

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
Joni Mitchell

Music, Through, Easy

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.
Twyla Tharp

Work, Feelings, Thoughts

I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.
Ellie Goulding

Music, Through, Perfect

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.
Renee Fleming

Music, Emotional, Simple

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.
Evan Davis

Cool, Place, Rather

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.
Liz Phair

Her, She, Everybody

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