I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.

I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, which I've…

— Bradford Cox

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood…

— Paul Robeson

When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in…

— Bradford Cox

One thing that I love about country music, probably more so than any other culture - maybe the blues rivals it - there are…

— Marty Stuart

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

— Lonnie Donegan

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

— Michael Bastian

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

— Cass McCombs

As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out…

— F. Sionil Jose

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

— Alan Parsons

I would love to do something with Mohit Chauhan and other folk artists.

— Neha Bhasin

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

— Noam Chomsky

I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist.

— John Martyn

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

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

— Theodor Adorno

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

— Mos Def