Folk music Quotes · Page 3

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

— Woody Guthrie

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

— Pete Seeger

People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

— Martin Mull

I have tried to show the influence of folk music in Bollywood, in Tamil movies, in Telugu cinema.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

— Joni Mitchell

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

— Angel Olsen

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

— Robert Plant

Meghdhanush has brought the newer generation close to folk music with their personal touch of rock and they definitely rock at it.

— Tulsi Kumar

“It's one of those songs that everybody knows, but you are not supposed to do, because everyone does it, only no-one does…

— Gloria Jackson

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

— Trey Anastasio

With 'Mirzya,' we went deep into folk music. The film, unfortunately, did not do well because it was not marketed well. But…

— Shankar Mahadevan

And whether or not you're interested in opera or classical music or folk music or the theatre, I think that for a…

— Lesley Sharp

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know…

— Christopher Guest

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like…

— John Lennon

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk…

— Joanna Newsom

I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or…

— Langhorne Slim

I guess I wanted to emulate the artists that my parents were listening to when I was growing up. I've always had…

— Sarah Jaffe

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

'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had…

— Seanan McGuire

In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort…

— Jake Epstein

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music…

— Ben Harper

The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become…

— Robert Plant

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about…

— Jerry Garcia

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

— Louis Armstrong

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

— Katherine Jenkins

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

— Rosanne Cash

Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.

— Maggie Rogers

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

— Karen Chance

“All of my words, if not well put or well taken, are well meant.”

— Woody Guthrie

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

— Dave Alvin

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

— Hozier

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

— Van Morrison

“All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.”

— Woody Guthrie

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

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

— Mat Kearney

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

— Michael Storm

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

— Gary Moore

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

— Mark Knopfler