I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. — Dave Davies 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
People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets. — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly. — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version… — Cat Stevens 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
I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that… — Marshall Brickman Copy Share Image
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
The folk that you get on Radio 1 isn't the sort of thing that I'm into: it's kind of too uptempo and… — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
“E po, mirupafshim! Po me mbyt trishtimi, nga merzia. Seç kam nje brenge ne shpirt, Makar Aleksejeviç. As vete s'e di arsyen.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Meghdhanush has brought the newer generation close to folk music with their personal touch of rock and they definitely rock at it. — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish. — Ailyn Perez 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
When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people. — Jenny O 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
Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be… — Daniel Smith Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud. — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers. — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
“Eshte e mire letersia, Varenjka, shume e mire eshte. U binda diten e trete te vizitave. Gje me peshe. Ua forcon zemren… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
'Take Her Up to Monto' is a very satirical song. I don't really like people calling it a folk song because it… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly,… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system.… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I was addicted to rhythm 'n' blues pretty much directly into folk music. I had my little 45s of mostly black artists.… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this… — Mark Knopfler 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
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
