Folk music Quotes

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

— Hozier

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

— Lonnie Donegan

This machine kills fascists.

— Woody Guthrie

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

— Paul Whiteman

I've always felt rock is folk music.

— Michael Penn

The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.

— Johnny Flynn

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

— Sxip Shirey

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

— Brownie McGhee

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

— Gustav Ejstes

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

— John Lennon

The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I…

— Eugene Levy

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my…

— Mitski

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

— Pete Seeger

I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but…

— Weyes Blood

I grew up listening to a lot of Simon & Garfunkel and Peter, Paul and Mary. I know that sounds dorky, but…

— Kemp Muhl

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna…

— Neil Gaiman

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

Of the music that we've done over the years, the things that are the most requested are the hymns. And folk music…

— Mack Wilberg

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people…

— David Crosby

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's…

— Pat Metheny

I think that anything is a form of folk music. That's just me being glib, but the thing I like the best…

— Will Sheff

I want to be just a musician and songwriter, and hopefully known as a very good one. I love a lot of…

— Langhorne Slim

When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the…

— Bradford Cox

I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where…

— Steve Martin

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

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

In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant…

— Pete Seeger

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal.…

— Bela Bartok

This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life…

— Joan Osborne

The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then…

— Joan Baez

He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young…

— Pete Seeger

“I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a…

— Terri Windling

I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein…

— Ketch Secor

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

— Katey Sagal

The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.

— Hank Williams

If folk is the music of the common people and not the intellectual elite, then that's what rock is.

— Michael Penn

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

— Jay Michaelson