Quotes about Folk

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. Votes: 4

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere. Votes: 4

Folk is bare bones music. Votes: 3

Folk Music is the map of singing. Votes: 3

Folk music is a bunch of fat people. Votes: 3

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart. Votes: 3

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk. Votes: 3

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition. Votes: 3

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it. Votes: 3

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility. Votes: 3

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. Votes: 3

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others. Votes: 3

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea. Votes: 3

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world. Votes: 3

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level. Votes: 3

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. Votes: 3

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on. Votes: 3

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.' Votes: 3

Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. Votes: 3

Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents Votes: 3

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things. Votes: 3

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. Votes: 3

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. Votes: 3

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. Votes: 3

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. Votes: 3

Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces! Votes: 3

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious. And I said Right. Votes: 3

I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the right girl yet. Votes: 3

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that. Votes: 3

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them. Votes: 3

Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time. Votes: 3

Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music. Votes: 3

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up. Votes: 3

Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks. Votes: 3

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big. Votes: 3

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor. Votes: 3

Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues. Votes: 3

Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful Votes: 3

Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo"¦ and it's worth fighting for. Votes: 3

Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it was about a hundred years ago given the name "Folk music". Votes: 3

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. Votes: 3

Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture. Votes: 3

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. Votes: 2

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. Votes: 2

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. Votes: 2

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live. Votes: 2

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. Votes: 2

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music. Votes: 2

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. Votes: 2

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. Votes: 2

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. Votes: 2

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public. Votes: 2

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. Votes: 2

The 'crownd' is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in the same sense as the dollar, and look with regret upon the gradual disappearance of the broad silver disc with the figure of 'St. Gaarge' conquering the dragon. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. Votes: 2

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible. Votes: 2

There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds. Votes: 2

Threatened folk live long. Votes: 0

Difficult folk, these women! Votes: 0

Rich folk don't try so hard Votes: 0

I was reared on folk music. Votes: 0

Some folk want their luck buttered. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is the last true folk art. Votes: 0

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. Votes: 0

I loved Israeli music, Israeli folk music. Votes: 0

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. Votes: 0

Dally not with other folk's spouses or money. Votes: 0

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band. Votes: 0

Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art, Votes: 0

I never saw myself as a folk singer. Votes: 0

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore. Votes: 0

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk. Votes: 0

I came late to the genre of folk music. Votes: 0

I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though. Votes: 0

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie. Votes: 0

...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk. Votes: 0

I always thought I was singing American folk music. Votes: 0

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. Votes: 0

But the reality is that we are a folk band. Votes: 0

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise. Votes: 0

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise. Votes: 0

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another. Votes: 0

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford. Votes: 0

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place. Votes: 0

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics. Votes: 0

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. Votes: 0

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope. Votes: 0

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer. Votes: 0

I love folk; that's a big part of my background. Votes: 0

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead. Votes: 0

Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one! Votes: 0

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk. Votes: 0

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk. Votes: 0

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.. Votes: 0

I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it. Votes: 0

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music. Votes: 0

The only really happy folk are married women and single men. Votes: 0

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV. Votes: 0

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.. Votes: 0

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you. Votes: 0

I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist. Votes: 0

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. Votes: 0

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk. Votes: 0

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. Votes: 0

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. Votes: 0

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak. Votes: 0

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know. Votes: 0

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing. Votes: 0

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries. Votes: 0

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. Votes: 0

I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties. Votes: 0

All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. Votes: 0

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff. Votes: 0

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ... Votes: 0

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is! Votes: 0

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. Votes: 0

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. Votes: 0

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good. Votes: 0

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor. Votes: 0

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. Votes: 0

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk Votes: 0

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death. Votes: 0

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. Votes: 0

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. Votes: 0

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming. Votes: 0

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people. Votes: 0

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike. Votes: 0

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. Votes: 0

Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak; Votes: 0

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness. Votes: 0

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite. Votes: 0

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. Votes: 0

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. Votes: 0

It's a folk singers job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people Votes: 0

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them. Votes: 0

I prefer her [Nina Simone] jazz period much more so than her folk period. Votes: 0

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. Votes: 0

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people Votes: 0

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. Votes: 0

it's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy ... Votes: 0

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero. Votes: 0

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. Votes: 0

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers. Votes: 0

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers. Votes: 0

There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown. Votes: 0

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way. Votes: 0

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context. Votes: 0

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know. Votes: 0

I will try just about all the folk food we go to in any place. Votes: 0

Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now. Votes: 0

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song Votes: 0

The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska. Votes: 0

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. Votes: 0

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic. Votes: 0

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. Votes: 0

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea Votes: 0

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s. Votes: 0

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music. Votes: 0

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst. Votes: 0

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera. Votes: 0

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both. Votes: 0

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. Votes: 0

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. Votes: 0

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music. Votes: 0

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. Votes: 0

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories. Votes: 0

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve. Votes: 0

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things. Votes: 0

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk. Votes: 0

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. Votes: 0

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it Votes: 0

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk. Votes: 0

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. Votes: 0

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music. Votes: 0

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand. Votes: 0

When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people. Votes: 0

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man. Votes: 0

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud. Votes: 0

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do. Votes: 0

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. Votes: 0

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk. Votes: 0

Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions. Votes: 0

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly. Votes: 0

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing. Votes: 0

From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish. Votes: 0

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. Votes: 0

Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne) Votes: 0

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do. Votes: 0

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. Votes: 0

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. Votes: 0

Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of Votes: 0

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. Votes: 0

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music. Votes: 0

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream. Votes: 0

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock. Votes: 0

Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends. Votes: 0

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague. Votes: 0

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound. Votes: 0

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Votes: 0

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. Votes: 0

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. Votes: 0

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about. Votes: 0

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters. Votes: 0

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks. Votes: 0

A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour. Votes: 0

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week. Votes: 0

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life. Votes: 0

some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. Votes: 0

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. Votes: 0

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there. Votes: 0

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there. Votes: 0

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true. Votes: 0

I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk. Votes: 0

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. Votes: 0

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky. Votes: 0

We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship. Votes: 0

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child. Votes: 0

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child Votes: 0

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. Votes: 0

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. Votes: 0

Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it? Votes: 0

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk. Votes: 0

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron. Votes: 0

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it. Votes: 0

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves. Votes: 0

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. Votes: 0

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility. Votes: 0

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. Votes: 0

The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could. Votes: 0

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet. Votes: 0

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. Votes: 0

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love. Votes: 0

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. Votes: 0

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all. Votes: 0

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' Votes: 0

Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary Votes: 0

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe. Votes: 0

Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X]. Votes: 0

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet. Votes: 0

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. Votes: 0

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. Votes: 0

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me. Votes: 0

I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada. Votes: 0

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war. Votes: 0

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary. Votes: 0

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. Votes: 0

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music. Votes: 0

And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen. Votes: 0

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000? Votes: 0

From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way. Votes: 0

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. Votes: 0

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. Votes: 0

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs. Votes: 0

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead! Votes: 0

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union. Votes: 0

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest. Votes: 0

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it. Votes: 0

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two. Votes: 0

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up. Votes: 0

While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing. Votes: 0

Wonderful folk, Elves, sir! Wonderful!' 'They are,' said Frodo. 'Do you like them still, now you have had a closer view? Votes: 0

Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music. Votes: 0

My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small. Votes: 0

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own. Votes: 0

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. Votes: 0

To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists. Votes: 0

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. Votes: 0

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that. Votes: 0

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares. Votes: 0

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. Votes: 0

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. Votes: 0

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. Votes: 0

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. Votes: 0

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art. Votes: 0

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan. Votes: 0

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention. Votes: 0

Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick. Votes: 0

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially. Votes: 0

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead. Votes: 0

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song. Votes: 0

Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you]. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound. Votes: 0

The pseudonymous perpetrator of America's only unsolved airline hijacking [is] a folk hero as shadowy as Deep Throat and as morally troublesome as Jesse James Votes: 0

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music. ... Votes: 0

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel. Votes: 0

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Votes: 0

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians. Votes: 0

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. Votes: 0

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics Votes: 0

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather. Votes: 0

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days. Votes: 0

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams. Votes: 0

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told. Votes: 0

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed. Votes: 0

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards. Votes: 0

...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain. Votes: 0

For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value. Votes: 0

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. Votes: 0

The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves. Votes: 0

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! Votes: 0

My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges. Votes: 0

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men. Votes: 0

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that. Votes: 0

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music. Votes: 0

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company. Votes: 0

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. Votes: 0

Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long. Votes: 0

one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was Votes: 0

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting. Votes: 0

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh. Votes: 0

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like. Votes: 0

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. Votes: 0

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk." Votes: 0

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition. Votes: 0

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them. Votes: 0

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs. Votes: 0

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk. Votes: 0

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility. Votes: 0

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along. Votes: 0

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression. Votes: 0

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that. Votes: 0

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that. Votes: 0

Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields. Votes: 0

I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you. Votes: 0

It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter. Votes: 0

People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play. Votes: 0

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references. Votes: 0

The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered. Votes: 0

Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created. Votes: 0

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand. Votes: 0

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental. Votes: 0

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. Votes: 0

We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children. Votes: 0

I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices. Votes: 0

Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain! Votes: 0

But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built up a callus yet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them. Votes: 0

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people. Votes: 0

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. Votes: 0

A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en! Votes: 0

We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature. Votes: 0

Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see. Votes: 0

If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage, Votes: 0

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens. Votes: 0

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion. Votes: 0

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer. Votes: 0

I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. Votes: 0

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything. Votes: 0

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony. Votes: 0

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined. Votes: 0

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer. Votes: 0

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes. Votes: 0

When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm just doing them because they're great songs. Votes: 0

I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. Votes: 0

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile. Votes: 0

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels. Votes: 0

If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership! Votes: 0

I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British. Votes: 0

Honestly some folk will take offence at anything, I met a bloke with no legs this morning while at the bus stop, all I asked was "How are you getting on?" Votes: 0

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk. Votes: 0

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else. Votes: 0

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it. Votes: 0

What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll break out the ketchup. Grandma's birthday, make her feel special" Votes: 0

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better. Votes: 0

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole. Votes: 0

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group. Votes: 0

Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.' Votes: 0

People think cruises are for old folk, but they are amazing, as you get to see so many places, and you're never stuck as you're docked in a different port every day. Votes: 0

I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from. Votes: 0

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music. Votes: 0

From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk. Votes: 0

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well. Votes: 0

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets. Votes: 0

Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives... Votes: 0

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar. Votes: 0

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Votes: 0

Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best. Votes: 0

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog. And being a folk singer doesn't make you attractive to women. Votes: 0

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter. Votes: 0

The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found. Votes: 0

After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion. Votes: 0

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them. Votes: 0

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode. I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure. Votes: 0

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion. Votes: 0

Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk. Votes: 0

I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain. Votes: 0

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs. Votes: 0

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain. Votes: 0

Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it - also part of the fun of it all. Votes: 0

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk. Votes: 0

I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that. Votes: 0

What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones. Votes: 0

In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies. Votes: 0

For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves. Votes: 0

In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall Once ended the harvest, let none be beguiled Please such as did help thee, man, woman and child. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with graces, I would share the secret. Votes: 0

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food. Votes: 0

The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles. Votes: 0

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts. Votes: 0

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music. Votes: 0

I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject. Votes: 0