Folk Singer Quotes

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed. — John Patrick Shanley

Free diving is not entirely free: to go down you leave behind — Brook Emery

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive. — Jean M. Auel

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing. — Stephen Mangan

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud. — Roger McGuinn

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people — Woody Guthrie

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it. — Gordon Lightfoot

I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though. — Vance Joy

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

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

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag. — Michel De Montaigne

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer. — Ray Lamontagne

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff. — Anthony Doerr

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. — Robert Wyatt

Like the Phoenix, we can observe in our own lives that disintegration brings with it transformation and rebirth. — Donna Labermeier

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it. — Al Stewart

I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. — Haruki Murakami

I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in. — Peter Hook

I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada. — Zooey Deschanel

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about. — Judith Krantz

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place. — Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer. — Bob Dylan

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer. — Joan Baez

Growth and empowerment requires reflection and facing the frightening, ugly, hard and unbearable reality. — Bryant McGill

Jeers and obscenities trailed after us like optimistic pickpockets. — Lyndsay Faye

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks. — Phoebe Snow