Folk Songs Quotes
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Folk Songs 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
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.
— Big Bill Broonzy
I come shackled with shadow, consumed with rage and fire, I'm close to breaking, the urge is quaking, raping, I'm the devil, and there's no hope.
— Pepper Winters
Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.
— Camille Paglia
I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.
— Roger McGuinn
the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.
— Pat Cadigan
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
Maybe the Indirect Surveillance thing cost him brain cells. Good thing he was so pretty.
— Erin Kellison
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
— Dan Auerbach
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
— Ray Lamontagne
True affluence is to not need anything.
— Gary Snyder
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
You could have just thought of me. I would have known and come running. I'm practically a superhero in that regard.
— Cora Carmack
From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.
— Ailyn Perez
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
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
Some genius of the South
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. — Jean Toomer
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. — Jean Toomer
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.
— Shawn Amos
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
Cheesecake Factory is great. It should have Michelin stars.
— Blake Lively
You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.
— H.G.Wells
You don't have to part the waters or move the mountain for me; just help me get across them, Lord, for I can do all things through Thee.
— Lisa Mischelle Wood
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
You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.
— Terry Pratchett
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
— Eugene Chadbourne