I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe. — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
Folk has always been the mainstay of Indian music; we're very soulful people, and we like the sound of our soil. — KK Copy Share Image
And it's all just from word of mouth. No big marketing. That means the folk who come to the gigs are there… — Gerry Cinnamon Copy Share Image
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Po ç'pune ke ti, mor zoteri, me çizmet e mia te shqyera dhe me berrylat e mi te grisur?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original… — Christopher Anderson Copy Share Image
People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience… — Harry Belafonte 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
There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
One thing that I love about country music, probably more so than any other culture - maybe the blues rivals it -… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all.… — George Grove Copy Share Image
The great folk hymns are a perfect marriage of text and tune. There are those that have nice messages and some with… — Mack Wilberg Copy Share Image
A lot of European folk music has this interesting, intriguing quality, a whole new harmonic way of thinking. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music. — Rupi Kaur 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 think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem.… — Nico Mirallegro Copy Share Image
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound. — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing. — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
Though I always experimented with electronic music in the past, I wasn't invested in that sound. My heart has always been in… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
“And of a Sunday swarm the folk Under the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody,… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before… — Kent Haruf 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
Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk… — Charlie Adam Copy Share Image
In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man. — Greg Graffin 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
Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's… — Shankar Mahadevan 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
