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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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
Roald Dahl 
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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.
Adolph Green
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
Ben Harper
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
Daisy Berkowitz
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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H. L. Mencken
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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
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Charles Baudelaire
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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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