Quotes on Folk

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.

Author: Tom Chapin

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

Author: Graham Coxon

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Author: Anthony Doerr

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Author: Ralph Emerson

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

Author: John Fahey

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

Author: John Fahey

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

Author: Steve Forbert

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.

Author: Jane Grey

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Author: Thomas Hardy

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.

Author: Dan Hicks

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

Author: Laura Innes

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

Author: Nathan Lane

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

Author: Brownie McGhee

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

Author: Barry McGuire

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Author: Moliere

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

Author: Cynthia Payne

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

Author: Carly Simon

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

Author: Ann Wilson

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

Author: Robert Wyatt

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Author: Chelsea Yarbro

Quotes on Folk

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.