Folk Quotes · Page 6

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

— Laura Innes

Seven' is this kind of nostalgic, emotional folk song.

— Aaron Dessner

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

— Amy Ray

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

— Noam Chomsky

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

— Ann Wilson

I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.

— Vance Joy

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

— Paul Stookey

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

— Joanna Newsom

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

— Phoebe Snow

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

— Billy Connolly

I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk.

— Gopi Sundar

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

— Nathan Lane

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

— Dave Alvin

Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar…

— Kemp Muhl

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

— Pete Seeger

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs…

— Arlo Guthrie

I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless…

— Roger McGuinn

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we…

— Steven Sater

It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do…

— Ice T

I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I…

— Melora Hardin

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

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what…

— Emilia Clarke

The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create…

— F. Sionil Jose

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.

— Big Bill Broonzy

I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.

— Charlotte Caffey

I love Glen Hansard. He's a folk musician.

— Rachel Zegler

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

— John Fahey

A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

— Ruston Kelly

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

— Terry Pratchett

We have to preserve folk in its authenticity. Else folk will become fake.

— Hamsalekha

Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.

— Hank Williams

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

— Mary Travers

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

— Paul Whiteman

I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is…

— Mitski

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

— Karen Chance

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

— Linn Ullmann

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest…

— Alan Garner

“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