Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music.…

— Pat Metheny

If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have wire frames…

— KT Tunstall

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

— Peter Senge

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

— Christian Dior

Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.

— Ilaiyaraaja

Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art,

— Mulgrew Miller

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country…

— Lizz Wright

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

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

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