Folk Singers Quotes

#1. Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

Serj Tankian

#2. There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.

John Lennon

#3. Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

Johnny Ramone

#4. I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.

David Crosby

#5. Villains are fun to play.

Edi Gathegi

#6. I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for a reason, and I start singing them.

Sam Amidon

#7. Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.'

Linda Ronstadt

#8. It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

Woody Guthrie

#9. I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.

Zooey Deschanel

#10. Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.

Sarah Dessen

#11. The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

Carly Simon

#12. This is the story of a family who didn't fit in. A little girl who was a bit geeky and liked maths more than makeup. And a boy who liked makeup and didn't fit into any tribes.

Jojo Moyes

#13. I used to be a folk singer, but I was ... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog. And being a folk singer doesn't make you attractive to women.

Billy Connolly

#14. A bullet costs 2 cents, anyone can afford that

Sherman Alexie

#15. We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.

Phil Collins

#16. When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried.

Bear McCreary

#17. I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the point of view of a singer, but from the point of view of an actor. That's how I first started to sing.

Harry Belafonte

#18. Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#19. You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

Kaitlin Olson

#20. Love is a handout that supplies way beyond what's normal.

Auliq Ice

#21. War, murder, slavery, extermination, and debauchery, - this has again and again been the result of carrying civilization and the blessed gospel to the isles of the sea and the heathen without the law. Nor

W.E.B. Du Bois

#22. I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Bob Dylan

#23. The figure knew that the coming events would begin with this night. The truth of the prophecy would lay a destiny far greater than any known to Dagmarth. A destiny for one child to embrace. It would bring change to this war and Dagmarth.

Joseph J. Miccolis

#24. Every woman is harmed by the cultural expectation that women are decorative possessions, sexual objects to be acted upon; and every man benefits from having been socialized to be the actor.

Anonymous

#25. The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

Sheryl Crow