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
I love pop-punk music; I love grunge music; I love country music and folk music. — Olivia Rodrigo 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 don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The Marathi film 'Natrang' has amazing songs. I also like and have sufi and folk music. — Amruta Khanvilkar Copy Share Image
I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs. — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
“Have you ever listened to folk music? Let's face it, a lot of folk music is all about dead sailors, mad witches,… — Marie Browne Copy Share Image
I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen… — Philip Pullman 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
My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies,… — Greta Salpeter 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 have a great liking for the Chamba folk music, which depicts the beauty of women and the mountains with a touch… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
“You know when I'm down to my socks it's time for business That's why they're called business socks It's business, it's business… — Flight of the Conchords Copy Share Image
In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim… — Paul Stookey Copy Share Image
“A creative America has walls for structure but no ceilings at all. The doors and windows always stay open. No member who… — Ashfaq Ishaq Copy Share Image
That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical… — Kurt Weill Copy Share Image
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's… — Greg Graffin 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
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
Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
“Martin Carthy on English folk music: "I'm not interested in heritage - this stuff is alive.” — English Folk musician Martin Carthy Copy Share Image
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I would love to be one of those fellows who combine formal and folk music approaches. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing. — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist… — Billy Squier 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
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 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
Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything. — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk… — Bono Copy Share Image
