Folk Quotes

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
Carlisle Floyd

Music, American, Write

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.
Nick Offerman

Family, Important, Gun

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.
Tavis Smiley

Destiny, Start, Moon

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
Warren Zevon

Music, Interested, Early

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Mark Knopfler

Music, Place, Idea

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

Time, Woman, Whole

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
Alice Hoffman

Women, Poor, Interested

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

Work, Long, Enough

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
Marie de France

Faith, Great, Men

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
Ernest Bevin

Great, War, Before

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.
Emmylou Harris

Music, Country, Working

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
P. J. Harvey

Music, Study, Sense

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
Terri Windling

Music, American, Show

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
Ron Wood

Music, Art, Respect

Growing up, we had folk records.
Alison Krauss

Growing, Records

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Jackson Browne

Music, Time, Business

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
Jackson Browne

Music, Time, Play

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.
Christopher Guest

Rock, Jealous, Same

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
Cynthia Payne

Old, Week, Homes

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
Ray LaMontagne

Music, Write, Songs

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.
Ray LaMontagne

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.
Joanna Newsom

Music, Different, Wanted

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
Joanna Newsom

Deep, Away, Rooted

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
Gavyn Davies

Money, Book, Public

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
Frank Black

Age, Society, Remember

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
Eugene Chadbourne

Songs, Building, Died

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
Amos Lee

Music, Means, Anymore

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.
Tom Glazer

Music, Today, Listen

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
Dan Auerbach

Family, Together, Play

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.
Justin Townes Earle

Music, Done, Same

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