Quotes About Folk

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.

Then, of course, we could choose to stay only within the reach of those rulers we favor—and I can't conceive of the chaos and overburdened troops and officials that would be found in any realm in which folk could choose their rulers. Thankfully, I can't believe that any people would ever be crazed enough to do that. Not in this world, anyway.

That is why the truth is in the hands of unofficial folk.

It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.'

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

My family used to put on a small folk festival.

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that. I write pretty much all the time.

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.

I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

John Martin was a great, complex folk singer, and later on, his music became more and more melancholic as he went through a separation with his wife.

I've always loved Country, folk, and the acoustic end of music.

I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.

I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but that's more electronic.

With 'Ta chuma,' which is a Garhwali folk song, I feel that there will be a strong connect which people will feel and they will get closer to folk music.

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.

There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

I was reared on folk music.

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.