Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it…

— Al Stewart

My mother was into folk-rock when I was little, so I think of folk-rock as the norm from which everything else deviates. Of course,…

— Stephin Merritt

Certain songs are almost like folk songs, which I love. I love folk music, and if you listen to 'Live Bullet,' there's 'Jody Girl,'…

— Bob Seger

Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into…

— Richard F. Thomas

The thing is, I was more blues-oriented, more of a purist than in the pop world. That led me into a folk rock trio…

— Denny Laine

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob…

— Doug Henning

The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.

— Hank Williams

Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't…

— Dar Williams

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

— Alan Parsons

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

— Mary Travers

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

— Neha Bhasin

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people…

— Phoebe Bridgers

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

— Fritz Lang

We were not folk-rock. We would scare people.

— John Densmore

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

— Steve Forbert