Quotes of: Folk-songs Keyword

Certain songs are almost like folk songs, which I love. I love folk music, and if you listen to 'Live Bullet,' there's 'Jody Girl,' which is almost a folk song, and I've always loved folk music. Quiet music, I don't try to do that with - I try to set...

Bob Seger

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

Big Bill Broonzy

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

Ray LaMontagne

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

Justin Townes Earle

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.

Tom Lehrer

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

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

Roger McGuinn

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can...

Guy Clark

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

Frank Black

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 love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want...

Langhorne Slim

I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.

Roger McGuinn

Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't cla...

Jimmy Reid

I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do ...

Roger McGuinn

Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.

Dutch

There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film song...

Pritam Chakraborty

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Noam Chomsky

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

Eugene Chadbourne

From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.

Ailyn Perez

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

Phoebe Snow

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

Matt Dillon