Folk Quotes · Page 4

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

— Amy Lee

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

— Big Bill Broonzy

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

— Oscar Isaac

Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.

— Alasdair MacLean

I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.

— Roy Harper

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

— Cass McCombs

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

— Sxip Shirey

“It's often the most frightened of folk who do the greatest deeds.”

— Richard A. Knaak

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

— Karen Chance

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

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

— Pete Seeger

“Folk påstod, at Ove altid så verden i sort-hvid. Og hun var farve. Al hans farve.”

— Fredrik Backman

From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.

— Shawn Amos

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

I feel just as passionately about experimental electronic music as I do about folk music.

— Weyes Blood

“Eshte e mire letersia, Varenjka, shume e mire eshte. U binda diten e trete te vizitave. Gje me peshe. Ua forcon zemren…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

I was addicted to rhythm 'n' blues pretty much directly into folk music. I had my little 45s of mostly black artists.…

— Joan Baez

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

I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this…

— Mark Knopfler

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea…

— Teddy Thompson

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been…

— William Gibson

Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of…

— Mary Travers

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk.…

— Richard Dooling

You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music,…

— Bradford Cox

Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally…

— John Spiers

It's weird, in New York, it's like the big theme of everything is folk music and interacting with people. Maryland is where…

— Avey Tare

I think there's a difference between the type of folk music that people put into the box of "folk music" and then…

— Christopher Paul Stelling

I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into…

— Ellie Goulding

The use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player…

— Dave Brubeck

I've always dreamt of doing an entire record just on folk music.

— Devi Sri Prasad

The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.

— Johnny Flynn

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

— Bob Dylan

At one stage, I wanted to be a folk singer.

— Roger Allam

I love Glen Hansard. He's a folk musician.

— Rachel Zegler

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

— John Fahey

I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.

— Charlotte Caffey

A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

— Ruston Kelly