Folk Music Quotes

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.

I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.

My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

This machine kills fascists.

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.

You know when I'm down to my socks it's time for businessThat's why they're called business socksIt's business, it's business time

But our land is still troubled by men who have to hate. They twist away our freedom, and they twist away our fate. Fear is their weapon, and treason is their cry. We can stop them if we try.