Folk Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Folk

Folk Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Folk quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise. — Daisy Berkowitz

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. — Neil Diamond

We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet. — Zora Neale Hurston

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. — Stanley Walker

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. — Kate Morton

We sprung from thin soil, and raised more kin than crops, but we were proud folk... — Louis L'Amour

You lie, All-father. You lie in the way that some folk breathe. — Neil Gaiman

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. — Pete Seeger

Wolf Spring s not a city of finery. It is of fishers and farmers and folk on the docks, and no one wears their fine blacks except on Beltane. — Kendare Blake

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford. — Tamora Pierce

There were those whose love spilled over into their every gesture, and so was shared by all who knew them. But they were rare folk indeed. — Juliet Marillier

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. — Charles Kuralt

The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage, — Kevin Rudd

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others. — Moliere

Have you ever listened to folk music? Let's face it, a lot of folk music is all about dead sailors, mad witches, rape and fratricide. — Marie Browne

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs. — Roger McGuinn

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire

I always thought I was singing American folk music. — Lonnie Donegan

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk. — John C. Reilly

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. — Paul Whiteman

I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything. — Gustavo Santaolalla

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing. — Alison Goldfrapp

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song — Oscar Isaac

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.. — Ani DiFranco

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. — James Whistler

All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. — Ninette De Valois

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it. — Steve Forbert

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand. — Margaret Deland

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest. — Ouida

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs. — Matt Dillon

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music. — Katey Sagal

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. — John Lydon

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera. — Fritz Lang

Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society's folk ways, as counters in the game of society's ordaining, are outlawed. — Randolph Bourne

The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses. — Utah Phillips

It's often the most frightened of folk who do the greatest deeds. — Richard A. Knaak

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. — Dave Davies

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead. — Snoop Dogg

I AM homesick after mine own kind,
Oh I know that there are folk about me,
friendly faces,
But I am homesick after mine own kind. — Ezra Pound

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won't admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here. — Michael Thomas Ford

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do. — Michael Kiwanuka

The same good folk who would burn me for a psychal now paid me to use my cursed gramarye to guard their sheep. — Hazel Butler

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore. — Amos Lee

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? — L.M. Montgomery

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. — Walter Scott

It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy ... — Naomi Mitchison

You're the Baba Yaga?" He gazed at her in disbelief. "But the Baba Yaga is an ugly old crone, and you're, you're... not! — Deborah Blake

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. — Dolly Parton

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero. — Moby

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. — Robert Gottlieb

I came late to the genre of folk music. — Tom Morello

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' — Pete Seeger

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people. — Sam Walton

reality has too many heads — Bob Dylan

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera. — Maria Karnilova

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way. — Gustav Ejstes

Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest. — Thomas Beecham

This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. — Theodor Adorno

Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire

A good hanging now and then
that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week. — Cynthia Payne

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics — Hunter S. Thompson

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. — Katherine Jenkins

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens. — Dorothy Cotton

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan. — Doug Henning

Wearing of the green
On March seventeen.
Shamrocks and Irish folk
Take o'er the scene! — Richelle E. Goodrich

Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
May the stars shine upon your faces! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along. — Susan Orlean

The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans. — Stephen Baxter

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable. — Sufjan Stevens

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ... — Vita Sackville-West

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like. — Cat Stevens

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. — Joni Mitchell

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk. — Nathan Lane

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good. — Martin Firrell

I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, You just haven't met the right girl yet. — Tina Fey

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly. — Trey Anastasio

Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing. I — Catherynne M Valente

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me. — Harvey Gantt

Something tells me this isn't going to end well for everyone involved. Someone may get turned into a frog yet." And that was the good news. — Deborah Blake

I am not partial to folk who are grim and austere. I prefer fanciful folk who make me laugh. — Jack Vance

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak; — Willard Mullin

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another. — Ovid

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk. — Philip Sidney

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you. — Terry Pratchett

They knew her, the graveyard folk, for each of us encounters the Lady on the Grey at the end of our days, and there is no forgetting her. — Neil Gaiman

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both. — Dave Alvin

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about. — Anton Chekhov

I was reared on folk music. — Rufus Wainwright

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope. — Gayla Reid

The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath. — Padraig Pearse

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know. — Cass McCombs