I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips…

I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great…

— Zooey Deschanel

I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them…

— Zooey Deschanel

Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby…

— Pete Seeger

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

— Robert Wyatt

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

I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool.

— Mary Gauthier

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

— Woody Guthrie

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

— Billy Connolly

It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch - they're…

— Johnny Flynn

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to…

— Loudon Wainwright III

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the…

— Langhorne Slim

At one stage, I wanted to be a folk singer.

— Roger Allam

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

In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows…

— Mary Gordon

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

— P. J. O'Rourke