Folk music Quotes · Page 4

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

— Robert Plant

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

— Joni Mitchell

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

— Shankar Mahadevan

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

— Martin Mull

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

— Angel Olsen

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

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

— Woody Guthrie

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

— Arlo Guthrie

Folk music is very honest, it's very humble, it's very organic, and the voice is exactly that. And so I'm very excited…

— Avi Kaplan

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

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

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

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 was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got.…

— Jess Row

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

— Mitski

For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music…

— Kwame Dawes

New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,…

— Wynton Marsalis

I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School…

— Roger McGuinn

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

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

— Langhorne Slim

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

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

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk…

— Justin Townes Earle

I love pop-punk music; I love grunge music; I love country music and folk music.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

— Neha Bhasin

I was wearing leather studded jackets, but I was playing acoustic folk music, so it was quite a weird mix.

— Nina Nesbitt

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

— Dick Smothers

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

— Stephen Stills

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..

— John Betjeman

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

— Donal Henahan

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

— Ray LaMontagne

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

— Eugene Levy

In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk…

— Christopher Guest

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is…

— Brandi Carlile

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

— Kemp Muhl

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

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

— Sxip Shirey

I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an…

— John Prine

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

— Avey Tare