There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was… — Pritam Chakraborty Copy Share Image
I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools.… — Vicki Sue Robinson Copy Share Image
I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on… — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I was a young folk singer, or wanted to be. I really wanted to be a New England folk singer, but they… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in… — Sam Barry Copy Share Image
If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
I love vocals and what they can do, and the different layers they can create, and I really want to bring that… — Avi Kaplan Copy Share Image
He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
We detested folk music because it was cerebral and sedate and we had no time for that. But the Byrds were OK… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales,… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing, or you like something really… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
A good folk song tells you something you already know, in a form you're already familiar with, on terms that were set… — David Means Copy Share Image
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“They change what they do not like,’ said Jessold, referring to the singers. ‘And they do not like what they cannot remember.… — Wesley Stace Copy Share Image
