#folk

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up. ↗

— Charles Evers

#black #cleaned #educate #folks #get

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk. ↗

— John Fahey

#i #never #teachers #technique #them

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#being #bent #blues #folks #get

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

#business #every #every time #folk #folk music

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

#could #couple #folk #folk music #hits

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#been #few #folks #very #vices

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

#backstage #believe #both #canadian #festival

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. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#art form #both #commodity #different #first