Quotes of: Folk-songs Keyword

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

Jakob Dylan

Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the song became a different thing from w...

Cold Mountain

Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose ambush is violent and sudden: the song the cab driver was tuned to, the song rumbling from the speaker wedged against the fire-escape railing, the s...

Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears

That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels.' Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to ris...

Night Watch

Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often.

Korean

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

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

Noam Chomsky

So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.

Fred Wilson

Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.

Bre Pettis

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

Rush Limbaugh

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.

Tim Scott

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

August Wilson

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

Lawrence Welk

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Adam McKay