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
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.
David Knopfler
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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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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.
William Feather
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
Katey Sagal
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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.
Terri Windling
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I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.
John Fahey
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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.
Jane Grey
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When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.
Jim Messina
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The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
Nigel Kneale
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My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
David Crosby
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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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