The great folk hymns are a perfect marriage of text and tune. There are those that have nice messages and some with… — Mack Wilberg Copy Share Image
The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all.… — George Grove Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to a lot of Simon & Garfunkel and Peter, Paul and Mary. I know that sounds dorky, but… — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only… — Benjamin Todd Jealous Copy Share Image
I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with… — Emmylou Harris 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
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I… — Eugene Levy 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
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 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
I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my… — Sam Amidon 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
I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
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 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
Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence.… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There are those among the Folk so hideous that all living things shrink back in horror. And yet others have a grotesquerie… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I am basically a folk singer because I'm coming from a part of the earth where folklore means a lot. The Mediterranean… — Demis Roussos Copy Share Image
I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are… — Oscar Isaac 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
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 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
Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think… — Johnny Ramone Copy Share Image
If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black'… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons… — Will Sheff 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
The 'crownd' is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
My mother was into folk-rock when I was little, so I think of folk-rock as the norm from which everything else deviates.… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
