There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both. — Dave Alvin Copy Share Image
Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague. — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
Of the music that we've done over the years, the things that are the most requested are the hymns. And folk music… — Mack Wilberg Copy Share Image
Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I… — Melora Hardin Copy Share Image
You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to… — Sonny Terry Copy Share Image
I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step,… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do… — Ice T Copy Share Image
After touring the first album, we went into the studio and started making music that was influenced by all the freaky folk… — James Righton Copy Share Image
It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played… — David Grisman Copy Share Image
Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an… — Edgar Meyer Copy Share Image
Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
I love pop-punk music; I love grunge music; I love country music and folk music. — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. — Dick Smothers Copy Share Image
I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation. — Neha Bhasin Copy Share Image
I was wearing leather studded jackets, but I was playing acoustic folk music, so it was quite a weird mix. — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context. — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
