I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.' — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
“Naten s'kisha gjume, me mbyste pendimi, kot thone qe pendimi te lehteson.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more… — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans.” — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me. — Hyuna Copy Share Image
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
If folk is the music of the common people and not the intellectual elite, then that's what rock is. — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black'… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Stookey Copy Share Image
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the… — Benh Zeitlin Copy Share Image
More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context. — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera. — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing. — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
