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Folk Quotes
I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. Id like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church. - Gene Robinson Quotes
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I cant get away from completely. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. - Mark Knopfler Quotes
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. - Theodor Adorno Quotes
You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. Its the closest music to our humanity - its like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. - Sonny Terry Quotes
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesnt go wrong. I dont 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 isnt done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia. - Piers Anthony Quotes
When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid. - Jackson Browne Quotes
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. - Barry Mcguire Quotes
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didnt know no more songs, theyd run out of them. - Brownie Mcghee Quotes
It was folk music that hooked me. I was really into the Kingston Trio, although at that time they were nearing the end of their run. - Bill Mumy Quotes
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. - Dick Smothers Quotes
He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record. - Matthew Sweet Quotes
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 Quotes
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. - Edward Thorndike Quotes
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. Thats what makes it different from both high art and folk art. - Leslie Fiedler Quotes
The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the 60s. I had a group, but I dont think it was at the same level as Chris, because hes an amazing musician. - Eugene Levy Quotes
Its taken folk a while to come around, hasnt it? Even the boys in the band werent too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now. - Ron Wood Quotes
And I just started a church. I called it the Worlds Folk Art Church. I bought this old church. There was no deacons or pastors or anything. - Howard Finster Quotes
The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didnt fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. - David Knopfler Quotes
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. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
Hungary has very beautiful folk poetry. - Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes
That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. - Jackson Browne Quotes
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 Quotes
Folk is bare bones music. - Ben Harper Quotes
Theres 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 didnt - and Jamaican stories. - Neil Gaiman Quotes
Some folk want their luck buttered. - Thomas Hardy Quotes
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. - Van Morrison Quotes
Well, I dont think it ever did, but in the early 60s I got interested in folk music. - Warren Zevon Quotes
Oh, 1962. The music scene was so bad that several of us decided to come out to Berkeley and take over the folk music scene here. - John Fahey Quotes
Ive been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff. - Anthony Doerr Quotes
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