Folk Artists Quotes

#1. I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

Bonnie Raitt

#2. As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.

F. Sionil Jose

#3. Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

Janis Ian

#4. A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.

Peter Schutz

#5. Sometimes in life, you will get knocked down.

Ray Rice

#6. You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.

Conor McGregor

#7. Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!

Steven Wright

#8. Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

Bonnie Raitt

#9. Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.

Ubaldo Jimenez

#10. If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.

Max Lucado

#11. The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.

Robert A. Johnson

#12. Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.

Steve Earle

#13. To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Carroll Quigley

#14. Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other."
Lark: "I didn't say they liked it.
- Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases

Tamora Pierce

#15. I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

LL Cool J

#16. I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

Landon Liboiron

#17. To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.

Justin Chon

#18. I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

Christopher Walken

#19. Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death ...

Georges Rodenbach

#20. Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.

Benjamin Booker