I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

— Angel Olsen

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 learn from…

— Anonymous

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

— James Vincent McMorrow

Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest…

— Ethan Coen

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

— Katey Sagal

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a…

— John Lennon

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

— Rosanne Cash

Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to archive it;…

— Paul Stookey

I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music.…

— Vance Gilbert

When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and started going…

— Finn Andrews

Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry…

— Pete Seeger

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

— Robert Plant

Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more…

— John Spiers

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music,…

— Jill Stein

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

— Sam Hinton