Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. ~By Alan Parsons ~
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. ~By William S. Burroughs ~
While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis. ~By Trent Lott ~
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music. ~By Katey Sagal ~
Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry. ~By Laura Ingraham ~
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. ~By Mel Tillis ~
It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct. ~By Jack Kingston ~
Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking." ~By George W. Bush ~
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. ~By John Buchan ~
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. ~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. ~By Jane Grey ~
Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks. ~By Tom Vilsack ~
Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss. ~By Mark Sanford ~
In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it. ~By Major Owens ~
The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying. ~By Michael Musto ~
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am. ~By George Benson ~
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. ~By Paul Henderson ~
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music. ~By Tom Glazer ~
When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ~By Tom Glazer ~
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that. ~By Barack Obama ~
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. ~By Anatole France ~
And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition. ~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation. ~By Jim Messina ~
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s. ~By Carly Simon ~
Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office. ~By Gwen Ifill ~
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. ~By Eugene Chadbourne ~
When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up. ~By Loretta Lynn ~
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. ~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it. ~By William M. Thomas ~
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. ~By Tobias Smollett ~
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding. ~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever. ~By Rush Limbaugh ~
Different strokes, for different folks. ~By Sly Stone ~
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ~By Harper Lee ~
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things. ~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves. ~By Mick Fleetwood ~
There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway. ~By Charles Horner ~
Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it. ~By Frank Howard Clark ~
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. ~By Dick Smothers ~
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant. ~By Alan Dundes ~
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant. ~By Samuel Richardson ~
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily. ~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it. ~By Bill Frist ~
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them. ~By Christopher Dawson ~
One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11. ~By Mike Johanns ~
I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy. ~By Gary Cooper ~
People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing. ~By Alice Cooper ~
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. ~By Ma Rainey ~
Folks never understand the folks they hate. ~By James Russell Lowell ~
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. ~By Alan Dundes ~
I always thought I was singing American folk music. ~By Lonnie Donegan ~
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. ~By Charles Baudelaire ~
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions. ~By James Payn ~
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. ~By Henry Fielding ~
I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week. ~By Cynthia Payne ~
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it. ~By Nigel Kneale ~
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition. ~By Major Owens ~
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. ~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer. ~By Eric Cantor ~
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~By Kin Hubbard ~
You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. ~By Sonny Terry ~
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art. ~By Leslie Fiedler ~
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. ~By Roald Dahl ~
I think most folks are good folks. ~By Judge Mills Lane ~
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance. ~By Bernard Cornwell ~
We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature. ~By Adolph Green ~
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. ~By Joanna Newsom ~
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. ~By David Crosby ~
I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist. ~By Terri Windling ~
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. ~By Hart Crane ~
I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief. ~By Julian McMahon ~
When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid. ~By Jackson Browne ~
Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite. ~By Norman Rockwell ~
Remember folks stop lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. ~By Jim Samuels ~
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it. ~By Alan Dundes ~
These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools. ~By Bob Filner ~
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. ~By Guy Clark ~
I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though. ~By Joshua Leonard ~
I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk. ~By John Fahey ~
That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world. ~By Robyn Davidson ~
I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it. ~By Rick Danko ~
It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now. ~By Ron Wood ~
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ~By Tom Glazer ~
The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too. ~By George Grove ~
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. ~By Edward Thorndike ~
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. ~By Barack Obama ~
Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it. ~By Steve Forbert ~
When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that. ~By Jill Scott ~
Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old. ~By Jack Kingston ~
Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts. ~By Norm Coleman ~
I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better. ~By Harry Mathews ~
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. ~By Alan Dundes ~
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. ~By Christopher Lasch ~
Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with. ~By Duane G. Carey ~
He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record. ~By Matthew Sweet ~
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. ~By Marvin Olasky ~
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. ~By Big Bill Broonzy ~
Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain! ~By Angie Stone ~
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. ~By Roger McGuinn ~
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