Folk Quotes

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.

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

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

Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art.

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.

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

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.

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.

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

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

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

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

Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.

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.

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.

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.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

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.

I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it - also part of the fun of it all.

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.

I was reared on folk music.

When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm just doing them because they're great songs.

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.

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.

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.

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.