Folk Song Quotes: top 34 famous quotes about Folk Song

Folk Song Quotes & Sayings

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

Now is the time for guts and guile — Elizabeth Taylor

Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long. — Rose Fyleman

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. — Frank Black

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares. — Tom Lehrer

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

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

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. — Tim Holden

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song. — Brandi Carlile

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians. — Agnes De Mille

I don't understand it. Addiction. The pull or the control, the want or the need. — Marissa Carmel

When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people. — Jenny O.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that. — Bob Dylan

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong

I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point. — Nathaniel Kahn

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that. — Bryce Dessner

The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it. — Thomm Quackenbush

So them who can't learn from a tale about critters, just ain't got the ears tuned to listen."
-Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South — Jim Korkis

How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us! — Jack London

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

It was a frightening thing, to see two mentally incompetent sidewalk buskers, with battered folk musicians, who might any moment burst into song. — Bruce Sterling

To start your quest you need somewhere to begin, and the best place to begin is at the start. - Horus, King of the Gods — S.W. Lothian

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious. And I said Right. — Arlo Guthrie

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently. — Nat Wolff

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope. — Graham Parker

Some genius of the South
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. — Jean Toomer

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. — Pete Seeger

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality. — Anne Waldman

And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need. — Robin Hobb

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life. — H.G.Wells

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths. — Clare Boothe Luce

reality has too many heads — Bob Dylan

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected. — Donald Trump

Scientists don't believe anything.Scientists test things. — Simon Conway Morris