Folk Quotes
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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'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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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 absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
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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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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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I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
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Folk is bare bones music.
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John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.
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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.
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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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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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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
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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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I love folk; that's a big part of my background.
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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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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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Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.
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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 got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child
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Folk Music is the map of singing.
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
