Quotes of: Folk-singer Keyword

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

Dick Smothers

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

Joni Mitchell

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

Katey Sagal

I'm not so sure reading Scripture will keep us from having to face trouble as much as it will focus our attention on our Help in those times. The Bible's full of stories about good folks with troubles. Good folks. God-fearin' folks.

Prairie Song

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk ro...

Richie Havens

Fools are like other folks as long as they are silent.

Danish

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

Ben Harper

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

Katherine Jenkins

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Mark Knopfler

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

Roger McGuinn

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

Trey Anastasio

The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively Indian war. Its a war for the rivers and the mountains and the forests of the world. All sorts of warriors from all over the world, anyone...

The Cost of Living

So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing. But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they wer...

Rogues

Jacob Singer: Jezzie? Get me out of here. Evil Doctor: Where do you want to go? Jacob Singer: Home. Evil Doctor: Home? This is your home. You're dead. Jacob Singer: Dead? No. I just hurt my back, I'm not dead. Evil Doctor: What are you, then? Jacob S...

Jacob's Ladder

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Bob Dylan

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

Ray LaMontagne

A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a ...

Roger Daltrey

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten sq...

Barack Obama

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

Brownie McGhee

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

Big Bill Broonzy

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

Melinda Clarke