Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Northeastern folk music influenced me from a very young age. Sachin Dev Burman is one of the inspirational musicians in Indian film… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
“Back in the "leather and lace" eighties, I was the fantasy editor for a publishing company in New York City. It was… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get… — Landon Liboiron Copy Share Image
Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. — Dick Smothers Copy Share Image
That's really always been the music that I've been in love with, always the music that I've written growing up. Even through… — Avi Kaplan Copy Share Image
We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Robby had a flamenco and folk music background. I was so enamored with watching Robby's fingers crawl across the flamenco guitar strings… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
After touring the first album, we went into the studio and started making music that was influenced by all the freaky folk… — James Righton Copy Share Image
With 'Ta chuma,' which is a Garhwali folk song, I feel that there will be a strong connect which people will feel… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero,… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
