Folk Music Singer

Famous quotes containing the words folk, music and/or singer:

    “Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He’s the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.”
    —Allan Massie (b. 1938)

    “So gladly, from the songs of modern speech
    Men turn, and see the stars, and feel the free
    Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers,
    And through the music of the languid hours,
    They hear like ocean on a western beach
    The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.”
    —Andrew Lang (1844–1912)

    “The question is not ... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?”
    —Kathleen Battle (b. 1948)