Folk Music Quotes

Folk Music Quote of the day

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

I loved Israeli music, Israeli folk music.

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

I was reared on folk music.

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.