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
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Edward Thorndike 
Ben Harper 
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Warren Zevon All Folk Quotes
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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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 don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.
Eugene Levy
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I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
Anthony Doerr
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I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
Stephen Stills
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There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
Eugene Chadbourne
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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.
Piers Anthony
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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
Alan Lomax
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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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