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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong
Music
Song
Folk
Folk Music
Horse
Never
Sing
Heard
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H. L. Mencken
Happy
Women
Men
Single
Married
Folk
Only
Really
We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.
Nikola Tesla
Food
Hurt
Water
Impossible
Will
Rest
Country
Become
Accident
Dust
Air
Everywhere
Folk
City
Roads
Soon
Town
Well
Smoke
Got
Contract
Get
Disease
Get Well
Clothing
Next
Elevated
Streets
Neofascism in the United States takes the form of big money, big banks, big corporations, tied to xenophobic scapegoating of the vulnerable, like Mexicans and Muslims and women and black folk, and militaristic policies abroad, with strongman, charismatic, autocratic personality, and that's what Donald Trump is.
Cornel West
Women
Personality
Money
Black
Big
Corporations
States
Muslims
Folk
Charismatic
Abroad
Takes
Like
Policies
Xenophobic
Tied
Vulnerable
Big Corporations
Trump
Mexicans
Big Money
Donald
Donald Trump
Autocratic
Banks
Form
United
United States
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fickle
Our
Hesitation
Puny
Folk
Following
Diseases
Avarice
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.
Jimmy Reid
Today
Song
Genius
Words
Rest
Ownership
Rich
Enjoy
Enriched
Melodic
Claim
Collected
Responsible
Folk
Folk Songs
Songs
He
Mainly
Robert
House
Line
Were
His
Scottish
Burns
Usable
Treasure
Kept
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, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.
Alice Cooper
Life
Natural
Listening
Think
Late
Seventies
Airwaves
Out
Kind
Folk
Easy
Easy-Going
Take
Step
Exciting
Taking
Over
New
Because
Sound
Sounds
Were
Sixties
Next
Breeding
Next Step
Ground
Strangle
Early
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.
Arlo Guthrie
Environmental
Time
History
Change
Rights
Generation
Boom
Rights Movement
Folk
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Environmental Movement
Course
Ready
Anti-War
Ban
Same
Same Time
Movement
Happening
Suddenly
Bomb
There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Racism
People
Burden
Black
Men
White
Folk
Sexism
About
Only
Sort
Talking
Ultimately
End
Persistent
Race
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
Bob Dylan
Music
Folk
Folk Music
Somehow
Had
Make
Became
Because
Interested
I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.
Ellie Goulding
Music
You
Achieve
Example
Mountains
Type
Kind
Folk
Running
Folk Music
Folklore
More
Both
Perfect
Perfect Example
Could
Through
Obsessed
Like
Countryside
Forests
Canada
Bands
Listen
Wanted
Woods
Lakes
Fields
Boards
Really
Aspects
Electronic
Electronic Music
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Francesco Guicciardini
Men
Fools
Others
Our
Run
Conspiracies
Folk
Risk
Excessive
Knave
Since
Most
Perilous
Fellowship
Without
Making
Cannot
Either
Engaged
Reason
Companions
The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.
George Grove
Music
College
Parents
Big
Too
Way
Alive
Kids
Folk
Folk Music
College Kids
Trio
Fresh
Were
Led
Did
Loved
Who
Started
I always thought I was singing American folk music.
Lonnie Donegan
Music
Thought
Singing
Folk
Folk Music
Always
American
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Mark Knopfler
Music
Meets
Folk
Folk Music
Delta
Idea
Heaven
Blues
Where
Place
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
Patrick Kavanagh
Soul
Simple
Manners
Bad
Folk
Intrude
Bad Manners
Private
Familiarity
Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas Hardy
Luck
Folk
Some
Want
Buttered
Chance
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather
Wisdom
Wise
Experience
Nation
Preserved
Sayings
Folk
Fables
Proverbs
Perpetuity
Quotations
Ages
Northeastern folk music influenced me from a very young age. Sachin Dev Burman is one of the inspirational musicians in Indian film music. The way he fused folk music with his signature style is amazing. So, I am aware of the beauty of northeast folk music.
Adnan Sami
Inspirational
Music
Me
Musicians
Age
Amazing
Beauty
Style
Young
Way
Fused
Signature
Folk
Folk Music
Indian
He
Am
His
Very
Northeast
Young Age
Influenced
Film
Aware
Film Music
Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.
Aidan Gillen
Time
First
Big
Cities
Telling
Folk
About
Both
Wire
Had
First Time
Were
Queer
Scope
Baltimore
Ambitious
Manchester
Stories
Two
From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.
Ailyn Perez
Age
Dance
Young
Folk
Songs
Sing
Learn
Encouraged
Young Age
Spanish
Popular
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
Al Stewart
Heavy Metal
Words
Tribal
Rest
Three
Country
Else
Lyrics
Rap
Kind
Folk
Some
Per
About
Only
Beat
Attention
Most
Metal
Audience
Rock
Sound
Cult
Off
Western
Historical
Heavy
Cent
Interested
Pays
Thing
Image
Two
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
Alan Lomax
Music
Saying
Me
Book
Ought
Back
Collected
Folk
Folk Music
See
Songs
He
Knew
Days
Come
Sing
Go
American
Dylan
Bobby
Next
Used
Village
Lived
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
Alan Parsons
Style
Few
Gigs
Folk
Rock
Real
Did
Artist
Convention
Roots
In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.
Alexandra Petri
Good
Society
Caring
Folk
Nerds
Law-Abiding
Civilization
Wheels
Grinding
Who
Large
Keep
Fundamentally
There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.
Alison Goldfrapp
Music
Folk
Folk Music
Much
Really
English
Appealing
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