“People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.” PeopleWantTryingLooksIdeasSoundWatchesLaughingEventsTvsSittingTablesFolksCurrentsDrawingSillyShallowCartoonStimulusSitting DownCurrent EventsDeep Meaning Author:Gary Larson
“I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is "Sound," and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.” IfsBelieveCountryWholeShowsSoundBusinessStreetsWallBiggerBoundsDon't BelieveFolksEmsMapsGet Back Author:Will Rogers
“Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that trembles into buds Sending little rhythmic floods Of fairy sound in fairy ears. Thus all beauty that appears Has birth as sound to finer sense And lighter-clad intelligence.” LittlesSoundListeningBirthSpringEarsFolksSeedsFairyFloodBudLightersSapTranceSproutsHedgerows Book:Daniel Deronda: Easyread Edition Source: Daniel Deronda: Easyread Edition
“Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)” SoundWindPoliticianFolksPrivilegeFarmsSenatorsCompoundsPortBackyardsEnvironmentalistFloraOffshoreFlora And FaunaWind FarmsNantucket Author:Ilana Mercer
“I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.” KnowsEnoughJobsSoundComfortableEatingFolksRidiculousFluid Author:Duane G. Carey
“Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.” SoundInfluenceComplexesFolksRanBobDylanRip Author:Daniel Smith
“Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.” KindTwoCountryThreeSoundPayAttentionAudienceRocksBeatsHistoricalWesternFolksHeavyRapPay AttentionMetalsCentsCultHeavy MetalCountry Western Author:Al Stewart
“some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.” SoulEyeSongSoundBloodGeniusMouthsHotSouthFolksFolk Songs Book:The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
“My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and emoting a little too much for the sort of introspective, respectful, sort-of folk genre thing. I'm really into punk and folk as music that comes out of communities and is very genuine and very immediate and not commercial.” LittlesHardCausesSoundCommunityToo MuchFolksGenuineGenrePunkRespectfulIntrospectiveAcousticsFolk MusicPunk Music Author:Ani DiFranco