Quotes About Folk

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

particularly the deeply embedded heterodox, syncretic and pluralist religious and philosophical folk traditions which continue to defy the artificial boundaries of modern political identities.

He figured somewhere in these territories there was an enormous madhouse whose keeper had thrown up his hands in disgusted defeat and flung wide the portals so these twisted folk could descend like locusts on the countryside.

Bob Dylan was different. Where most folk singers were either clean-cut or homey looking, Dylan had wild long hair. He resembled a poor white dropout of questionable morals. His songs were hard-driving, powerful, intense. It was hard to be neutral about them. "The Times They Are a-Changing" was perhaps the first song to exploit the generation gap. Dylan's life was as controversial as his ideology.

A fair field full of folk found I there.

This relationship created intense feelings of anxiety and fear among the "common folk," in a manner that is not easy for people of another world to understand.

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

My dad was very influential with the music he exposed me to. He was really into blues and folk, so he'd play me guys like Muddy Waters and T-Bone Walker and Richie Havens - a lot of very emotional players.