I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.


Robert Wyatt

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VANCE JOY
I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.
PHOEBE SNOW
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LANGHORNE SLIM
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressin...
STEPHEN MANGAN
I'm not a very typical singer.
SAMUEL LARSEN
I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.
RAY LAMONTAGNE
I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.
CASS MCCOMBS
I never saw myself as a folk singer.
BOB DYLAN
In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and ra...
MARY GORDON
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuo...
ROBERT QUINE
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
ANTHONY DOERR
I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.
NINA SIMONE
My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'S...
BENJAMIN BOOKER
I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and...
ROGER MCGUINN
I'm not a jazz singer.
BOZ SCAGGS
I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
ANNE MCCAFFREY
I'm a rock and roll singer.
ADAM ANT
I'm no hillbilly singer.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.
BECKY G
I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arth...
PHILIP REEVE
I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too pr...
JOHN DESMOND BERNAL
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I hap...
AL STEWART
So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and.....
CALLIE THORNE
I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with h...
BURTON CUMMINGS
I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.
SARA BAREILLES
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
PHIL COLLINS
I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.
JILL SCOTT
Yes, I'm a proud Latina woman, but before that - before the color of my skin, my accent, anythin...
BIANCA MARROQUIN
I feel like I'm like a healer in a pop singer's life.
MARY LAMBERT
I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'...
JUSTIN HAYWARD
I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack...
BRYAN GREENBERG
I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
ADAM LAMBERT
I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joy...
DAVID REMNICK
It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands o...
BARRY MCGUIRE
I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's co...
LANGHORNE SLIM
I still struggle with my low notes. It's just always been something for me: I'm not a low si...
CASSADEE POPE
I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That'...
GEORGE STRAIT
I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz a...
RICHIE HAVENS
I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just d...
CASEY ABRAMS
Unless you use the vocoder the way Daft Punk use it, it is very limited. When they sing it's alm...
GIORGIO MORODER
I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Soli...
JASPER CARROTT
I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense...
NAOMI JUDD
I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY
I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Cro...
ORLANDO BLOOM
I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
KARL LAGERFELD
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a cr...
PAUL SIMON
The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.
PHOEBE SNOW
Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers....
JAMES EARL JONES
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I...
KIESZA
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma...
SKYLAR GREY
I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is...
J. D. SOUTHER
I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.
BEN AFFLECK
I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest s...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ
I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is b...
ANDY GRIFFITH
I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed...
STEVEN HEIGHTON
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real si...
NAT KING COLE
We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort...
ADOLPH GREEN
Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I...
JAMES TAYLOR
Don was a pretty good singer - he came from West Virginia where they sang a lot of country folk musi...
MAGGIE PETERSON
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk ...
DOUG HENNING
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When th...
BROWNIE MCGHEE
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
DOLLY PARTON
When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, no...
EDDY ARNOLD
I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
BENMONT TENCH
I'm just an instant flirt with most people. I'm very cheeky.
OLLY MURS
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MELANIE FIONA
I'm a true singer who grew up singing in church, so I love singing my heart out.
NATURI NAUGHTON
Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. ...
ETHAN COEN
When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd ha...
LULU
I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doin...
DOLLY PARTON
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the ...
JEANNETTE WALLS
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a ...
DAVID BOWIE
Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country m...
KACEY MUSGRAVES
Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternativ...
BRAD DELSON
It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad fol...
PATTY GRIFFIN
I'm just very grateful that the media has been so kind to me, because there's nothing unusua...
MARY BERRY
I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a s...
MICHAEL BUBLE
I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
PAMELA ANDERSON
I'm a big fan of rocky girls. I love Hayley Williams and the lead singer from Tonight Alive.
ASHTON IRWIN
'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as ...
NATALIE MACMASTER
If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second lab...
JOAN BAEZ
I really want to be just a singer-songwriter. That's who I am.
JESSICA SIMPSON
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
SANDRA BERNHARD
I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very...
SHEMAR MOORE
I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interest...
MADONNA CICCONE
I'm a girly girl. I'm strong, but I'm very timid. Very dainty.
LIL' KIM
I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being lit...
CAM
Everyone's weird, I'm just a bit bizarre.
PENNIE LILLIAN
And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
SALLY KELLERMAN
Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift tha...
ARETHA FRANKLIN
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow...
BILLY IDOL
I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.
JONI MITCHELL
I'm just not very interested in decoration.
PHOEBE PHILO
What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
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And blind desir...
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And then may chance thee to repent
The time that thou hast lost and spent
To cause thy lov...
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My galley cha...
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Stand whoso list upon the slipper top
Of court's estates, and let me here rejoice
And use ...
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The fructe of all the servise that I serve
Dispaire doth repe, such haples hap have I ;
Bu...
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I leave off therefore,
Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
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Whoso List to Hunt

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, hela...
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They flee from me that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
I hav...
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These bloody days have broken my heart.
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Forsake me not till I deserve
Nor hate me not till I offend;
Destroy me not till that I sw...
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Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, hélas, I may no more.
The vai...
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I find no peace, and all my war is done,
I fear and hope; I burn and freeze like ice;
I fl...
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Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am /
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
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A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
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A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me
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We could hire as many as 150,000 (new employees) in the next five years.
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Defensively, we're putting a lot of pressure on people.
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It's not the problems you have, but how you react to them that counts.
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We're growing accustomed to him doing the things that he does.
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He was OK. We just didn't get it done. We [changed quarterbacks] for a change of pace.
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I'm probably the only person loyal to the bone to my alma mater. I don't want to go anywhere. I'm ju...
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Playing against a former coach has nothing to do with it. We do it the same way whether we're playin...
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I think I will let them decide how they want to tackle it.
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Passion comes from within, but you can find it anywhere.
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We're not insulted, ... The Collapse of Toilets in Glasgow.
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The calf didn't respond to any manipulation of the foot ? no response from calf, consistently.
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Let's align our resources where we have demand.
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Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY
A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY
If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have t...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned ...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troub...
ROBERT KENNEDY
American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been ou...
ROBERT KENNEDY
In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the be...
ROBERT KENNEDY
It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural co...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty bu...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because...
ROBERT KENNEDY
When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu...
ROBERT KENNEDY
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin...
ROBERT KENNEDY
It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
ROBERT KENNEDY
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY
We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t...
ROBERT KENNEDY
From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY
In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY
We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY
No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
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