I was reared on folk music.

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

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

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

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

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

— Katey Sagal

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

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

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it.…

— Roger McGuinn

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

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've always dreamt of doing an entire record just on folk music.

— Devi Sri Prasad