Quotes About Folk

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

If you're in a garage band, it's about being better than the band in the next-door garage. But in the folk tradition, it's more a vibe of sharing.

Aginisi give me tales a the sea folk. Her mama's people come a that place." She slipped the bone necklace from beneath her blouse, held it reverently, allowing him to see. "This come a them, long time back. Come over the water as they come.

It isn't a club, I said calmly. It's a walking stick. Six feet long. It's traditional Ozark folk art. With dents and nicks all over it. I thought about it for a second. I'm insecure? Get a blanket. He held out his hand. I signed and passed my staff over to him. Do I get a receipt? He took a notepad from his pocket and wrote on it. Then he passed it over to me. It read: Received, one six foot tall traditional Ozark walking club from Mr. Smart-Ass.

He nodded slowly. "Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka." "That some kind of Russian saying?" I asked. "Have you seen traditional folk dances?" Sanya asked. "Imagine them being done by someone with a bottle of vodka in them. Laughter abounds, and you survive another day." He shrugged. "Or break your neck. Either way, it is pain management.

Newfoundland's own brand of music from groups such as Great Big Sea, the Ennis Sisters, and Buddy Wassisname.

Why have we made a folk hero of a man who is the antithesis of all our official heroes, a haunted millionaire out of the West, trailing a legend of desperation and power and white sneakers?

And now the Old Man recited the prophecy of the Seeress: The Cradle fell an age ago, but Fire and Folk shall raise her In just twelve days, at End of Worlds; a gift within the sepulchre. But the key to the gate is a child of hate, a child of both and neither. And nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost for ever.

But as usual, the common folk are wiser and more able to discern the truth of things than are the elites who claim to serve them.

To me, city-dwellers are The Dispossessed, unfortunates who have been deprived of every creature's right to territory. There is a sense in which country folk, however impoverished, own their birthplace and all the land around it that can be covered in a long day's tramp – the natural, immemorial limit to the territory of a human being.

Ah, folk fash ye as much as ye let them;

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.

Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torey proposed that psychotherapy is little more than a culturally specific healing ritual, similar to that of folk healers in primitive cultures.

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.

Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

When I was small - I grew up in a village outside of Krakow - my brothers and sisters and I would play folk instruments and make music in our home.

Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art.

I was looking for some vintage furniture, and I came across this booth where they sold old pictures. This guy didn't just have things in a box; he had really curated his collection. Each image was like this little folk masterpiece.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.