Folks Quotes - Page 36

• I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.

  Roger McGuinn

  Song, Couple, Play

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• We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

  William Barnes

  Pride, Journey, Feet

  William Barnes (1869). “Poems of Rural Life in Common English”, p.132

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• I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

  Rip Torn

  Friends, Used, Miles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

  Roger McGuinn

  Song, People, Imagination

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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

  Music, Thinking, Wells

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• It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

  Ronnie Wood

  Music, Art, Taken

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• I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

  Terri Windling

  Music, Native American, Tunes

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• On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Technology, Hands, Together

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• It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the 70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

  Ann Wilson

  Women, Rocks, Play

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• We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games.

  Robert A. Kotick

  Fun, Real, Playing Games

  "Bobby Kotick Wants to Take the Fun Out of Making Games" by Andy Chalk, www.escapistmagazine.com. September 15, 2009.

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• A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of creativity as a folk art or a style of music; and, as such, it is quite as worthy of study.

  Michael Dummett

  Appreciation, Art, Creativity

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• I killed my Facebook page years ago because time clicking around is just dead time. Your brain isn't resting and it isn't doing. I think people have to get their heads around this thing. All this unmitigated input is hurting folks.

  Louis C. K.

  Hurt, Thinking, Years

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• It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.

  Tom Chapin

  Love, Believe, Guitar

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• A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Tunnels, Numbers, People

  Donald Rumsfeld, United States. Dept. of Defense. Historical Office (2001). “Public statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

  James Bovard

  Rights, Two Sides, Doe

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.

  Randy Couture

  Shapes, Easy, Lifestyle

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• I live to harass white folks.

  Derrick Bell

  College, White, Obnoxious

  Derrick A. Bell, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic (2005). “The Derrick Bell Reader”, p.471, NYU Press

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• At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.

  Lanford Wilson

  Hate, Drama, Writing

  "The Critic On My Shoulder" by Lanford Wilson, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1996.

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• I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Dog, Kids, Two

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• We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk songs. We also had recordings of nature sounds: thunder, rain, the singing of birds. We switched them on most frequently of all, and we never grew tired of them. It was as if they returned us to Earth.

  Anatoly Berezovoy

  Song, Rain, Tired

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• If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't get that either. But what we have learned, is that the one thing that poor folks of color can ask for and get are Police & Prisons.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, School, Color

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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

  Couple, Kids, Years

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• I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

  Bobby Cannavale

  Silly, Bigs, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.

  Ani DiFranco

  Feminism, Folk Music

  MuchMusic Interview, 2003.

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• I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my memories aged nought to ten are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

  Johnny Vegas

  Fun, Memories, Kids

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