Everything that has ever been called folk art has always…

I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the point of…

— Harry Belafonte

I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap.…

— Langhorne Slim

Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father…

— Pete Seeger

There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents a different…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

— Mos Def

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

— Cass McCombs

I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.

— Lara Spencer

As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out…

— F. Sionil Jose

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

— Michael Bastian

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

— Alan Parsons

I would love to do something with Mohit Chauhan and other folk artists.

— Neha Bhasin

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

— Noam Chomsky

I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist.

— John Martyn

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people…

— Phoebe Bridgers

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

— Leslie Fiedler