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 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 absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
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Folk is bare bones music.
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I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
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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 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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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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When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.
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I love folk; that's a big part of my background.
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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 grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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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 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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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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You’re better off - theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
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Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.
