233 Folk Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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

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

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

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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

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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