My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an…

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

— William Sloane Coffin

“The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he…

— Mitch Albom

A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he…

— Henri Nouwen

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

— Pete Seeger

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

— Pete Seeger

In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But…

— Pete Seeger

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

“Here was the old Professor Emerson, simmering beneath Gabriel's chastened exterior.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“seventy-six-year-old Professor Liviu Librescu, but he was from a different generation. He sacrificed himself by holding the door while ordering his students to escape…

— Chris Bird

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