Folk Punk Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.

Lexa Doig

#3. A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

Stone Gossard

#4. Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it

Thurston Moore

#5. You know, you've never really cared about anyone," he said. "But someday you will, and it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt a lot.

L.J.Smith

#6. I could write a book on the things I've done drunk.

Kid Rock

#7. The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

Ximenes Doudan

#8. I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

Garrett Hedlund

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

Ani DiFranco

#10. I wanted to make the right decision, but that's the thing that nobody ever had the decency to explain to me: sometimes there is no correct path. There's only a path where you get slightly less fucked and it's a matter of picking which undesirable consequences you're better equipped to handle.

S. Hart

#11. We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock - power chords - before we ever thought we would play folk music. So virtuosity was just never in my reach.

Ketch Secor

#12. I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

Langhorne Slim

#13. Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#14. I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

Greg Graffin

#15. Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#16. Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

Michelle Shocked

#17. I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music.

Benjamin Booker

#18. put the desired behavior on the path of least resistance,

Shawn Achor

#19. It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain