235 Folk Quotes for You to Enjoy

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. Ray Stannard Baker

Life Book Black Folk Insight Gives Struggles Souls His Than Aspirations Deeper Inner Inner Life

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. Renee Fleming

Music Simple Research Immediate Spent Folk Folk Music About Something Emotional Hours Hours And Hours Doing Very Fiddler Grandfather Appalachian

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. Richard Dooling

Obligations Financial Endeavor Folk Lay Except Mysterious Computers No-One Fail Over Heads Perhaps Know Toxic Instruments Talking Talking Heads Because Understands Experts Again Explain Them Us Created Derivatives Who Credit Default

The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo. Robbie Robertson

Music People Example Big Band Folk Folk Music Kinds Pot Taking Putting New Gospel Ultimate Mixing Up Mountain Blues Them

I had an amazing experience being on a hit show for Showtime, doing 'Queer as Folk', and impacting things socially, like helping change hearts and minds. It's such a big chapter of my life. Robert Gant

I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads. Robert Palmer

Music Time Me Song Astaire Way Those Folk Folk Music Fred Fred Astaire Take Road Over Heads Like Make Talking Make Up Talking Heads Up Listen African Things Album

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. Roger McGuinn

I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things. Roger McGuinn

Music Art Think Considered Background Ourselves Folk Folk Music Singers Instruments Makes Were Years Art Form Up Timeless Being Different Form Stand Stand Up Electric Strapped Even Different Things Foundation Things Basis

'Take Her Up to Monto' is a very satirical song. I don't really like people calling it a folk song because it kind of isn't. It's a bit cheeky calling it 'Take Her Up to Monto,' but the whole idea was to be very irreverent. Roisin Murphy

People Song Bit Kind Folk Take Idea Like Cheeky Calling Because Up Very Irreverent Really Whole Satirical Her

I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene. Roy Harper

Bone Member Folk Scene Never Really

Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music. Rupi Kaur

Music Me Before Folk Inspires Write Begin Listen Sufi

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing. Sam Palladio

Music Cornwall Kind Folk Well Lots Upbringing Vibe Celtic Celtic Music

I want to go to Denmark and Scandinavia. We've been inundated with their telly recently, and I've never been to any of those countries. I really want to get to know the people. I quite fancy living there for a bit if I could take a month off. They just seem like upfront, friendly folk. Sarah Alexander

People Living Month Bit Those Telly Folk Inundated Seem Could Take Never Countries Like Know Go Been Denmark Off Friendly Upfront Get Any Quite Just Want Fancy If I Could Really Recently

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced. Serj Tankian

World Folk Records He Armenian Singers Making Were Biggest Really

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things. Seth Shostak

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo. Shane Filan

Music Me You Country Down Folk Songs Road Suppose Most Got Go Very Just Pop Naturally Down The Road

If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is a popular medium and has a broad reach. There have been films with ghazals, classical and folk songs sung by local artists, which gave them popularity. Shankar Mahadevan

Cinema Films Medium Gave Local Broad Independent Out Sung Folk Promoted Folk Songs Some Classical Songs Reach Audience Been Artists Which Them Should Popular Using Popularity Film

Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer. Sissy Spacek

Life Home Great Family Age Guitar Values My Life Before Great Family Musician Folk Folk Singer Shaped Had Support Most Singer Leaving Leaving Home Wanted Things Early Playing Early Age

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions. Stan Sakai

Funny History Animal Heroes Long Animals First Folk Long History Tales Narratives Were So-Called Literature Japanese Companions Many

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing. Stephen Mangan

Moody Folk Folk Singer Singer Very Sitting Being Depressing Actor

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic. Steve Winwood

Music World Problems Jazz Folk Slot Tried Combine Since Sure Rock Always Traffic Done Blues Really World Music

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world. Sufjan Stevens

Music Musicians Culture World Word Language Mysteries Think Folk Folk Music Entire Like Understand Answer Becomes Itself Trying Often Just Movement Process Packaged Asked Grunge

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories. Ted Naifeh

Love Feeling Monsters Those Evoke Folk Folklore More Firmly Like Gothic Least Traditional Stories Which Them Root

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