Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar… — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way. — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my… — Joni Mitchell 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
I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me. — Hyuna Copy Share Image
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War… — Rhiannon Giddens 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
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
The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy… — Jimmy Reid 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
It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
I guess fusion would be the best way to describe my music. I think it also goes into the spectrum of electronic… — Vidya Vox 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
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
When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of… — J. Frank Dobie 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
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
Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
We have harmonies, folk songs, and compositions attached to each occasion - ranging from birth, harvest, to our festivals. Our country thrives… — Shankar Mahadevan 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
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half… — Bonnie Raitt 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those… — Rory Gallagher 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
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
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
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
