All these years, I have never forgotten what my parents…

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

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

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

— Michael Storm

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses,…

— David Crosby

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

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

— Robert Plant

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

— Martin Mull

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into…

— Arlo Guthrie

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

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs…

— Alan Lomax

I've always dreamt of doing an entire record just on folk music.

— Devi Sri Prasad

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it.…

— Roger McGuinn

There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

— Katherine Jenkins

People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history.

— Rhiannon Giddens