I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
As I was born and brought up in Himachal Pradesh, I used to listen to a lot of Hindi songs over radio… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“You have to know a lot of songs to cook the way our ancestors cooked. The songs are like clocks with spells.… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
“Yours is much worse than Eastern! You’ve slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it… — David Soul Copy Share Image
Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's… — John Prine Copy Share Image
“They staggered and stumbled, wounded but triumphant, singing the old Welsh folk song “Ar Lan y Môr.” And if there was something… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
When I was applying for a central government scholarship to study an art form, I saw that there was space to write… — Rohini Hattangadi Copy Share Image
Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs. — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. — Big Bill Broonzy Copy Share Image
Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people. — Hank Williams Copy Share Image
Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival."… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where… — Jihae Copy Share Image
My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song… — William Clark Green Copy Share Image
It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I have sung as many as 6,000 songs of various hues, be they classical, pop or folk songs. I have even performed… — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
“Hah!" said Granny Weatherwax. "I should just say it is a folk song! I knows all about folk songs. Hah! You think… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin.… — David Eugene Edwards Copy Share Image
Certain songs are almost like folk songs, which I love. I love folk music, and if you listen to 'Live Bullet,' there's… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most… — Anatoly Berezovoy Copy Share Image
My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was… — Pritam Chakraborty Copy Share Image
