Folk music Quotes · Page 2

I've always felt rock is folk music.

— Michael Penn

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

— Paul Whiteman

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

— Bob Dylan

I loved Israeli music, Israeli folk music.

— Jill Stein

I came late to the genre of folk music.

— Tom Morello

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Brownie McGhee

The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.

— Johnny Flynn

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

— Sxip Shirey

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

— Neil Diamond

I've always dreamt of doing an entire record just on folk music.

— Devi Sri Prasad

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

— Mark Knopfler

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna…

— Neil Gaiman

Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So…

— Pete Seeger

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time…

— Janis Ian

I grew up listening to a lot of Simon & Garfunkel and Peter, Paul and Mary. I know that sounds dorky, but…

— Kemp Muhl

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my…

— Mitski

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got.…

— Jess Row

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

— Pete Seeger

I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but…

— Weyes Blood

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk…

— Weyes Blood

Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and…

— Alan Freed

When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the…

— Bradford Cox

We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock…

— Ketch Secor

I want to be just a musician and songwriter, and hopefully known as a very good one. I love a lot of…

— Langhorne Slim

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's…

— Pat Metheny

I think that anything is a form of folk music. That's just me being glib, but the thing I like the best…

— Will Sheff

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk…

— Justin Townes Earle

He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young…

— Pete Seeger

If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I…

— Jeffrey Lewis

The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then…

— Joan Baez

This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music…

— Lee Ranaldo

I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein…

— Ketch Secor

“I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a…

— Terri Windling

“Back in the "leather and lace" eighties, I was the fantasy editor for a publishing company in New York City. It was…

— Terri Windling

I usually don't go into record stores to buy folk music.

— Gary Moore

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

— Michael Storm

Folk music is the heart of the Indian music scene for several years.

— Tulsi Kumar

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

— Hozier