I usually don't go into record stores to buy folk music.

“They buy things in ready-made stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

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