235 Folk Quotes for You to Enjoy

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death. Charlie Adam

Death You Say Folk About Pass Always Arsenal

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Folk Names Common Centuries Last

I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce, and a lot of Cat Stevens. Chris Cornell

Jim Later Seventies Folk Some Cat Cat Stevens Most Parts Around Came Lot Waits Exposed Tom Tom Waits Rejected

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation. Chris Hillman

Music Try Country Bit Folk Parameters Along Comfortable Doing Were Did Bluegrass Which Foundation Play Enjoyed Stretch

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them. Christopher Dawson

Work Heroes Long Before Stage Enough Folk Properties Poets Had Myths Became West Begun Get Did Them Hollywood Last

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician. Christopher Guest

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I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe. Creed Bratton

Back Folk Trio Israel North North Africa Africa Across Europe Traveled

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week. Cynthia Payne

Old Every Think Ran Folk Week Should Homes

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

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My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz. Dan Hicks

Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk. Darryl Pinckney

Black Black America Folk Classes Divided Felt Always Itself America Two

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story. David Crosby

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My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling. David Crosby

Music Myself Great You Business People Father Thought Singing Later Would Would-Be Folk Folk Music More Write Songs Know Calling Felt Affinity Than Being Movie Movie Business Then Actor Started

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. David Knopfler

Creative School Expectation Club Punishments Out Folk Logic Prone Followed Fit Same Just Anything Much Figured

'Queer as Folk' is gay gay gay gay gay. Del Shores

Gay Folk Queer

'Sunshine Superman' was a pioneering work that for the first time presented a fusion of Celtic, jazz, folk, rock, and Indian music as well as poetry. Donovan

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The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight. Douglas Brinkley

Hero Honor Summer Battles Folk Brought Winning Throughout Cuba Became Overnight Texas San San Antonio Roosevelt Riders Rough

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. Edward Thorndike

Intelligence Matter Animals Folk Find Fact Human Eager

There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who are some of the best players I've ever heard but are playing on their porch tonight because they've never chased success. There's simplicity to how they live and what they care about. Eric Church

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You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom. Eric Ries

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. Ernest Bevin

Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up. Ethan Coen

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