Quotes of: Folk-music Keyword

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

Florence Welch

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

David Lynch

I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.

David Sanborn

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.

Lee Ann Womack

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Tony Blair

I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I'm like a Casanova of music. I can't seem to settle down with one musical form.

Todd Rundgren

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

Wynonna Judd

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

Wynton Marsalis

Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

Youssou N'Dour

I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make ...

Brian Eno

When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ...

Dmitry Medvedev

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

Dan Fogelberg

What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.

Daryl Hall

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

The Souls of Black Folk

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Native Son

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Stephen Mangan

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

Sufjan Stevens

No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

Moby

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

Marilyn Manson

Folks, if you give people things for free, don't blame them for taking them.

Rob Woodall