Folk Quotes
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Folks Quotes
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I`ve always loved the idea of fairy tales, but somehow I never managed to completely connect with them. What interests me is taking those classic images and themes and trying to contemporize them a bit. I believe folk tales and fairy tales have some sort ...
Tim Burton
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubt on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman
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What I`ve learned most while working on Queer as Folk has come really indirectly, less from playing Justin Taylor than from dealing with press, corporations, advertisers, the gay community, and fans of the show. I`ve learned the necessity of constantly re...
Randy Harrison
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It`s difficult for me to imagine Justin as a real person. He`s so thoroughly a character created for serial television that his behavior, though dramatically justified on Queer as Folk, would register as childish, self-obsessed and absurd if it were displ...
Randy Harrison
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I always wanted to be Anna May Wong. She seemed so much more exotic and exciting than plain ordinary folk. But no-go. I wasn`t fated to be Wong, just white.
Paul Lynde
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
Jackson Browne
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What we`re making isn`t folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world community that understands cultures can relate. So people who still speak of nationalism and racism or what separates us, they are inadequate for this time....
Eugene Hutz
Keywords: and :: are :: but :: can :: community :: cultures :: evol :: folk :: for :: inadequate :: intellectualism :: isn :: language :: making :: music :: nationalism :: new :: of :: or :: people :: racism :: re :: relate :: savage :: separates :: so :: speak :: still :: that :: they :: this :: time :: understands :: us :: we :: what :: who :: worldSource: thinkexist.com
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Well, I don`t think it ever did, but in the early `60s I got interested in folk music.
Warren Zevon
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We view ourselves as folk artists first and foremost. The reason I play a one-string bass is to reference the old one-string washboard players ? the way we?re playing and our aesthetic is the same as theirs. It?s just the way we feel.
John Olson
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We are New Orleans folk. We aren`t going anywhere.
Donald Payne
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Virginia has a rich history of ceramics and folk arts and crafts. It`s important for the public to know there is a legacy of crafts in Virginia.
Elizabeth Moss
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Underlying everything is a country-folk foundation. You`re not going to see us do a Metallica or Snoop Dogg song.
Chris Hillman
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The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
Alfredo Parrish
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The pseudonymous perpetrator of America`s only unsolved airline hijacking [is] a folk hero as shadowy as Deep Throat and as morally troublesome as Jesse James.
David Gates
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The pioneers of Texas brought their Bibles and their Sacred Harp books, ... It`s a wonderful part of our folk heritage that`s been revived.
Barbara Loe Fisher
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The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That`s what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
Allynne Jones
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the `60s and `70s.
Carly Simon
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Randy Bachman
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The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the `60s. I had a group, but I don`t think it was at the same level as Chris, because he`s an amazing musician.
Eugene Levy
Keywords: 60s :: about :: amazing :: an :: and :: as :: at :: because :: both :: but :: chris :: doing :: don :: folk :: greatest :: group :: had :: he :: in :: involved :: it :: level :: movie :: music :: musician :: same :: that :: the :: thing :: think :: this :: was :: wereSource: brainyquote.com
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The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music of the folks. Blues is folk music.
Otis Taylor
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The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music of the folks. Blues is folk music.
Otis Taylor
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The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music of the folks. Blues is folk music.
Otis Taylor
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The festival is a wonderful event, bringing together Scotland`s finest storytellers and international guests for a programme of folk tales, performance and music.
Ann Dumas
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The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
Alexander Klose
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles` influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin` Spoonful and everybody else.
Barry McGuire
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Jackson Browne
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So it`s a little R&B, a little rock `n` roll, a little blues, a little folk, a little salsa, everything.
Pat Simmons
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Van Morrison
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn`t go wrong. I don`t know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn`t done my way. This is what I call ...
Piers Anthony
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People were learning to play traditional music, folk songs, and that`s a big field - that`s everything from blues to Appalachian music.
Jackson Browne
