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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk...

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

Quote by Alan Parsons about music, style, rocks, artists, real estate

Folks playing leapfrog must complete all jumps.

Folks playing leapfrog must complete all jumps.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love

The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the...

The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back!

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Neil Young was with Buffalo Springfield at the time. It...

Neil Young was with Buffalo Springfield at the time. It was really cool, the fact that he was doing country and folk.

Quote by Randy Bachman about country, time

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.

Quote by Randy Bachman about rocks, music, work

The folk-origin of ballads and the multiple authorship of epics are heresies worse than the futilities of the Baconians; at any rate, they are based on the same resolute omission, and build on it a wilder fantasy.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about origin

The kind of folk-spirit behind the poet is, indeed, different in the Iliad and Beowulf and the Song of Roland from what it is in Milton and Tasso and Virgil.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets, spirit

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, ...

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Quote by Douglas Adams about life

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in...

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called walking.

Quote by George W. Bush

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to...

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

Quote by Michael Caine about home, old, olderness

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but...

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

Quote by Satchel Paige about heads, nothing

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think...

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

Quote by Brad Paisley about opinion, home

I don't really find the sense of folks working in the...

I don't really find the sense of folks working in the theater loving the theater, and I find that discouraging.

Quote by Estelle Parsons about opinion, common sense, sense

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous, by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

Quote by James Payn about philosophy, poverty, hope

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I...

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about olderness, old

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician, things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about music, garden, memory, things, night, old, olderness

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing...

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about music

Take away the miseries and you take away some...

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks'reason for living. Their conversation piece anyway.

Quote by Toni Cade Bambara about opinion, conversation, reason

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