I would love to do something with Mohit Chauhan and other…

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with…

— Bonnie Raitt

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

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

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

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

— Michael Bastian

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

— Neha Bhasin

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic,…

— Gilbert Seldes