I've always felt rock is folk music.

If folk is the music of the common people and not the intellectual elite, then that's what rock is.

— Michael Penn

I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.

— Sal Khan

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New…

— Sam Barry

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

— Aretha Franklin

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

— Aretha Franklin

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

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

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