There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and…

We are a plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures.

— JRR Tolkien

“But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease, There’s none like the quiet folk who wait in libraries–…

— Margaret Widdemer

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

— Anonymous

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

— Hozier

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

— Rhiannon Giddens

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

— Rhiannon Giddens

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

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

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

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

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

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

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