Folk music Quotes

Folk Music is the map of singing.

— Alan Lomax

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

— Lonnie Donegan

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

— Amos Lee

Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.

— Tulsi Kumar

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

— Robert Plant

I was reared on folk music.

— Rufus Wainwright

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

— Bob Dylan

I loved Israeli music, Israeli folk music.

— Jill Stein

Folk music is the heart of the Indian music scene for several years.

— Tulsi Kumar

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

— Mark Knopfler

I usually don't go into record stores to buy folk music.

— Gary Moore

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

— Michael Storm

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

— Jay Michaelson

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

— Mat Kearney

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

— Van Morrison

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

— Michael Penn

People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each…

— Peter Yarrow

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all.…

— George Grove

I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen…

— Philip Pullman

“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 didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with…

— Ketch Secor

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered…

— Jill Stein

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative…

— Jackson Browne

Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of…

— Mary Travers

“A creative America has walls for structure but no ceilings at all. The doors and windows always stay open. No member who…

— Ashfaq Ishaq

The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to…

— Robbie Robertson

Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's…

— Greg Graffin

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to…

— Anonymous

My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The…

— Helen Simonson

That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer…

— Bill Bailey

It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical…

— Kurt Weill

Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system.…

— Utah Phillips

A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his…

— Sam Hinton

“Practice resurrection. For me, this means forcing myself to be brave enough to enjoy simple pleasures with my family. I take long…

— Katherine Willis Pershey

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

— Joan Osborne

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

— Bela Bartok

In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more…

— Noam Chomsky

“Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm…

— Music

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

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