Folk Quotes
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I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
M. F. Husain
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They've called us a lot of things-- the good neighbors, the fair folk. The gray ones, the old ones, the other ones. Spirits and haunts and demons.
Brenna Yovanoff
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It's kind of sun-bleached and psychedelic, with a little bit of folk or country.
Isobel Campbell
Belle and Sebastian
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The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
Kate Morton
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I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Charles Baudelaire
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I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.
Frederic Chopin
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong
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Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I love folk; that's a big part of my background.
Amy Lee
Evanescence
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When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.
Euripides
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Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.
Milton Berle