Folk Quotes
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.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.
Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
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 you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'
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.
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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.
If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.
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 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.
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.
My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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.
I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
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.
Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.
I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.
