There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.
I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
I always thought I was singing American folk music.
The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.
Biting and scratching is Scots folk's wooing.
My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to...
I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Poor folk's wisdom counts very little.
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
I never saw myself as a folk singer.
Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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...
Fools are like other folks as long as they are silent.
A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.
Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.
