Folk Quotes · Page 4

Seven' is this kind of nostalgic, emotional folk song.

— Aaron Dessner

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

— Bob Dylan

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

— Paul Stookey

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

— Amy Ray

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Terry Pratchett

A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

— Ruston Kelly

I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.

— Charlotte Caffey

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

— Phoebe Snow

I'm a touring musician. I don't watch the charts. I had the kind of success I'd hoped for. I won Grammys for…

— Shawn Colvin

It's fine if folk don't like my sense of humour. But if somebody misunderstands, then that hurts a bit.

— Limmy

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

— Jay Michaelson

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

— Pete Seeger

Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar…

— Kemp Muhl

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs…

— Arlo Guthrie

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

— Karen Chance

Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So…

— Pete Seeger

The 'crownd' is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in…

— Richard Jefferies

I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are…

— Oscar Isaac

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on…

— Mary Travers

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers…

— Michelle Dockery

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think…

— Johnny Ramone

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

— Langhorne Slim

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That…

— Arlo Guthrie

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

— John Fahey

I love Glen Hansard. He's a folk musician.

— Rachel Zegler

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

— Paul Whiteman

We have to preserve folk in its authenticity. Else folk will become fake.

— Hamsalekha

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk.

— Gopi Sundar

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

— Dave Alvin

“Have you ever listened to folk music? Let's face it, a lot of folk music is all about dead sailors, mad witches,…

— Marie Browne

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

— Creed Bratton

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

— Linn Ullmann

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

— Ani DiFranco

Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original…

— Christopher Anderson

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience…

— Harry Belafonte

And it's all just from word of mouth. No big marketing. That means the folk who come to the gigs are there…

— Gerry Cinnamon

Though I always experimented with electronic music in the past, I wasn't invested in that sound. My heart has always been in…

— Domino Kirke

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

— Stephen Mangan