Folky Quotes

#1. My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.

Dave Grohl

#2. People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."

Robert Wyatt

#3. I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

Florence Welch

#4. I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that. I write pretty much all the time.

Jamie Campbell Bower

#5. Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so hokey anyhow.

Richard Meltzer

#6. I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.

Samuel Larsen

#7. My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

Rod Stewart

#8. I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

Ellie Goulding

#9. When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft melodies. But then, as I got better on the guitar, I started exploring different sounds.

Kiesza

#10. What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

Courtney M. Privett

#11. It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

Eleanor Catton

#12. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its
intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.

John Piper

#13. The challenge is not finding the attitude, but it's really just being open and willing to go for it and try different things, and having a director that you can trust. The attitude is not something that I intended or created.

Chris Pratt

#14. Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

Frank E. Gaebelein

#15. Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

Tullian Tchividjian

#16. Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.

Susan Coolidge

#17. Any watching the battle would have found no breath in the next few blurring moments. Never had the Underdark witnessed such a vicious fight as when these two masters of the blade each attacked the demon possessing the other - and himself.

R.A. Salvatore

#18. Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

James Frey

#19. When you grow older, you love again, and the new love feels so different that the love before feels like make-believe.

Heather Davis

#20. There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.

Lisa Bevere

#21. All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.

Ian Fleming

#22. Easy there, Smurfette.

Larissa Ione