Top Folk Quotes
It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
Ron Wood
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.
Gene Robinson
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Allan Massie
Theodor Adorno 
Ben Harper 
Katey Sagal 
Ernest Bevin 
Jackson Browne 
Eugene Levy 
Stephen Stills 
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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.
Marie de France 
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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.
Alice Hoffman
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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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I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
Cynthia Payne
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I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
Bruce Springsteen
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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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My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
Johannes Sebastian Bach
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Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
Brownie McGhee
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Popular Folk Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonH. L. MenckenCharles BaudelaireTheodor Adorno MoliereWilliam FeatherLeslie FiedlerVan MorrisonRobert WyattBruce SpringsteenThomas HardyNeil GaimanWarren ZevonGraham CoxonAlice Hoffman
Ron WoodCarlisle FloydBen HarperJoanna NewsomPiers AnthonyJackson BrowneTerri WindlingRoald DahlTom GlazerDaisy BerkowitzBernice Johnson ReagonEdward ThorndikeKatey SagalDavid SoulMatthew Sweet
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