Folky Quotes & Sayings

We have a duty to get to know one another, and to cultivate a concern and responsibility for all our neighbors in the global village. — Karen Armstrong

Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes. — W. Brett Wilson

I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one on Red Square, they're safer than samovars. They're like stars and we'll "light" the whole earth with them. — Svetlana Alexievich

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul. — Rumi

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

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them. — Daniel Berrigan

The movement's other great achievement is this. Among its supporters, it kept alive a tradition, a way of seeing the world, a human capacity for outrage at pain inflicted on another human being, no matter whether that pain is inflicted on someone of another color, in another country, at another end of the earth. — Adam Hochschild

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

How they got in touch with each other in other instances, only they know. But paying a mistress with taxpayer funds and giving her a security clearance? These were new lows. — Gary J. Byrne

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present. — Anne Lamott

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

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

I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy. — Robin Hobb

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

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both. — Katey Sagal

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

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

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

Praise, Praise, Praise a child for the good they commit and the wrongs they rectify. — Asa Don Brown

Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? — Marco Rubio

The universe is then one, infinite, immobile ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile. — Giordano Bruno

It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit. — Joy Harjo

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

Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky. — Greg Graffin