“I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.” SchoolBitsCollegeSingingJazzLeavingFolksClubsImpressionBotherSundayFieryCertificatesBirminghamPlaying JazzBad Impression Author:Steve Winwood
“A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.” KnowsWayNeedsMatterHateHeardRevolutionWallArmsSingingSittingOvercomingBusyFolksCompromiseBloodyLocksHostilePointingToo BusyHate MeKnotsSitting AroundReverendsNo CompromiseThey Hate Me Author:Malcolm X
“I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.” IdeasParentSingingDancingFolksBackgroundsPianoOur FamilyCousinFamily BackgroundYour Cousin Author:Teddy Thompson
“My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.” WantChildrenEndsShowsBigsSongGirlActorsMemoriesStageDadTerribleDirectorsSingingWestMy DadFolksShow MeAuditionsDonkeyQueuesChild ActorsFolk SongsWest End Author:Emilia Clarke
“Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.” YearsWellsPersonsPlaySongTermStageBabyArmsSingingStandingGuitarFolksSingersGrandmotherAcousticsMicrophonesAcoustic GuitarOld Song Author:Pete Seeger
“Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.” FeelsSeemsGirlCoursesNextDoorsTypeSingingCatFolksBotherUrbanLike HerKittiesKitty Cat Author:Liz Phair
“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.” EnergySingingGuitarFolks Author:Jamie Campbell Bower
“When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point.” WantFeelsWritingWellsSongCoursesStrongVoiceRolesNiceModelsSingingDecidedGuitarFolksSingersRangeRole ModelsTwelveReally NiceThirteenPlaying Guitar Author:Lucinda Williams
“There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.” KnowsRealSongStuffBitsRecordsHeardTvsSingingWorkersFolksRadioSingersFantasticIrelandLiverpoolOld Records Author:John Lennon
“Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?” SongBlackWhiteGraceSingingFolksConversionAmazing Grace Author:Dick Gregory
“The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry.” WritingFirstsLongWantedSongFoundEasyMy OwnWrittenHeardSingingFolksRadioMelodyJimmyIntegratingWriting Songs Author:Mickey Newbury
“When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.” ArtPlaySchoolSongTeachingMonthsSixSingingFolksSix MonthsBeltsArt SchoolNovicesUkuleleFolk SongsBaritones Author:Joni Mitchell
“I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools. There was always music being played either on record, Jazz and Folk, by musician friends of my mother. I took to singing very early, I believe it has been a Gift I was born with.” YearsBelieveHas BeensSchoolMotherI BelieveBornRecordsMusicianMusic IsSingingJazzFolksConcertsFestivalsBeing Played Author:Vicki Sue Robinson
“I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for a reason, and I start singing them.” ReasonSeemsCertainLinesSingingFolksSingersStuck Author:Sam Amidon
“I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.” IfsKnowsKindDifferentShowsActionSocialGroupsSingingDollarsCharityFolksAll KindsCheerTroopsTicketsHeroinesReceptionTitheSocial Action Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.” IfsSongNextWeekFieldsSingingFolksNext DayFolk Songs Author:Johnny Cash
“The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.” KnowsMenYearsSingingFolks Author:Elvis Presley
“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.” LongSaidImportantNightMemoriesMusicGoneMusicianSingingHotJazzFolksLong AgoYardsMoonlightJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Louis Armstrong