I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical…

— Jimmy Page

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.

— Mitski

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

— Theodor Adorno

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

— Mos Def

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

— Cass McCombs

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

— Lara Spencer

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

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

— Leslie Fiedler

Once I'm obsessed with something, I'm really obsessed with it.

— Jade Cargill

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

— Beverley Mitchell