Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my… — Mitski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got… — Karunas Copy Share Image
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 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
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an… — Edgar Meyer Copy Share Image
It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played… — David Grisman 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
It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That… — Arlo Guthrie 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
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 Copy Share Image
I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob… — Roger Glover Copy Share Image
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
“Recordings of Georgian folk polyphonic songs makes a great musical impression. They are recorded in a tradition of active reproduction of Georgian… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dylan's music, per se, but I'm not a hater. I like the American folk music tradition, and… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
I was addicted to rhythm 'n' blues pretty much directly into folk music. I had my little 45s of mostly black artists.… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
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 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
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical… — Kurt Weill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A creative America has walls for structure but no ceilings at all. The doors and windows always stay open. No member who… — Ashfaq Ishaq Copy Share Image
The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to… — Robbie Robertson 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 you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and… — Alan Freed Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
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