Folk Quotes
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
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The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easygoing sound and strangle the life out of it.
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Folk is bare bones music.
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I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.
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I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
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My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
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I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
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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.
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The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
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It's kind of sun-bleached and psychedelic, with a little bit of folk or country.
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
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I love folk; that's a big part of my background.
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.
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The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
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Difficult folk, these women!
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I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child
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I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
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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.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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You’re better off - theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
