Quotes of: Folk Keyword

Simon: Remember folks, "It ain't simple bein' cool, but it's cool bein' simple."

Pirate Radio

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Bono

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

Joanna Newsom

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

Mel Tillis

I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

Bobby Cannavale

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Al Stewart

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

Roger McGuinn

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Vera Nazarian

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

Steven Sinofsky

I will miss it so,” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these people who would truly rather hurt one another ...

The Folk of the Air

Because that world's gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrigal singers in the world can't make that other one real again. It's like dinosaurs. We can put them back together perfectly, bone for bone, but we don'...

The Folk of the Air

The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarchal whiteness that presents itself -its way of life- as the only meaningful life there is. What could ...

Black Looks: Race and Representation

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

James Roosevelt

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Adam Bede

Lots of folks know stuff we don't, but that doesn't make 'em smart.

The Sound of Life and Everything

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

Mehmet Oz

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.

Roger McGuinn

Majority of folks out there are trying to make a difference. Don't just make a difference; become the difference!

Ogwo David Emenike

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

Lewis Black

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

Loretta Lynn

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

Max Baucus