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.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
Vance Joy
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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.
Loudon Wainwright III -
I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.
Martin Mull -
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.
Alice Cooper -
I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
Lara Spencer -
Folk is bare bones music.
Ben Harper -
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
M. F. Husain
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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 -
It's kind of sun-bleached and psychedelic, with a little bit of folk or country.
Isobel Campbell Belle and Sebastian -
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 -
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 -
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong -
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Charles Baudelaire
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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 -
When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.
Euripides -
I love folk; that's a big part of my background.
Amy Lee Evanescence -
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child
Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield -
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
Ben Harper
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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.
Ben Harper -
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.
Hart Crane -
Folk Music is the map of singing.
Alan Lomax -
You’re better off - theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
Catherynne M. Valente