235 Folk Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art. Michael Bastian

Art Folk Obsessed Really Actually

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do. Michael Kiwanuka

Soul Folk Put Like Also Lot

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. Michael Storm

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I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves. Mick Fleetwood

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Hip-hop is the last true folk art. Mos Def

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Neil Gaiman

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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. Neil Gaiman

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I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk. Nick Offerman

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I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it. Oscar Isaac

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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels. P. J. Harvey

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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around. Pat Metheny

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Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. Paul Whiteman

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I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular. Philip Pullman

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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia. Piers Anthony

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Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write. Ransom Riggs

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I was looking for some vintage furniture, and I came across this booth where they sold old pictures. This guy didn't just have things in a box; he had really curated his collection. Each image was like this little folk masterpiece. Ransom Riggs

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I don't really think of myself as a folk singer. Ray LaMontagne

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