Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often…

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

— Ron Carter

I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form,…

— Roger McGuinn

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

— Amy Ray

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

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

— Big Bill Broonzy

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

— Ani DiFranco

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

— Robert Plant

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd…

— Brownie McGhee

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

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote…

— John Lennon

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

— Charlie Adam

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

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

— Terry Pratchett

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it…

— Al Stewart

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