Quotes On folk

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The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.

-Eugene Levy

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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

-Theodor Adorno

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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

-Salma Hayek

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

-Noam Chomsky

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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

-P. J. Harvey

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Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

-Richard Dooling

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I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

-Evan Davis

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I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

-Ben Harper

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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

-Piers Anthony

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

-William Feather

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The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

-Hart Crane

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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

-Marie de France

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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

-Neil Gaiman

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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

-Roger McGuinn

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Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

-Edward Thorndike

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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

-Jackson Browne

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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

-H.L.Mencken

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

-Bob Dylan

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Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

-Bob Dylan

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

-Louis Armstrong

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I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.

-Ellie Goulding

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I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

-Renee Fleming

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I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

-Ani DiFranco

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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

-Ani DiFranco

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

-Joni Mitchell

Folk In Urdu

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  • The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician. — Eugene Levy
  • Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. — Theodor Adorno
  • I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. — Salma Hayek

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