Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your…

Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to archive it;…

— Paul Stookey

In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and…

— Paul Stookey

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 grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

— Katey Sagal

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a…

— John Lennon

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

— Rosanne Cash

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

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

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

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

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

— Robert Plant

Conversion is not only changing the faith. Conversion is changing the heart and working over there is the grace of God. Then only comes…

— Mother Teresa

There's nothing wrong with changing at all. But at your heart, you just got to stay true to who you are as a person,…

— Paul Wall

You change your life by changing your heart.

— Max Lucado