Folk Quotes · Page 5

I don't compose rap songs or party numbers. I only compose folk.

— Diljit Dosanjh

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

— Hozier

Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.

— Tulsi Kumar

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

— Amos Lee

We were not folk-rock. We would scare people.

— John Densmore

A Christian is a keyhole through which other folk see God.

— Robert E Gibson

After all, folk-fusion is my favourite genre.

— Amit Trivedi

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.

— Ray LaMontagne

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

— Trey Anastasio

“Martin Carthy on English folk music: "I'm not interested in heritage - this stuff is alive.”

— English Folk musician Martin Carthy

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

— Avey Tare

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

— Warren Zevon

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

— Dave Davies

What's quite nice about this whole folk movement is that it's born out of genuine friendship. And nobody's infringing on anybody's space.

— Johnny Flynn

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

— Stephen Stills

Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's…

— Shankar Mahadevan

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like…

— John Lennon

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician.…

— Cass McCombs

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero,…

— Talib Kweli

I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a…

— Benjamin Booker

Black folk have been 'the other' in shows and movies and in life for quite a long time. Not from our perspective,…

— Salim Akil

When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I guess I wanted to emulate the artists that my parents were listening to when I was growing up. I've always had…

— Sarah Jaffe

'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had…

— Seanan McGuire

“Kushdo qofte, edhe njeriu i vogel, nga ata qe nuk e turbullojne ujin, qe askujt s'i bien me qafe, qe rrojne me…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I've grown up with bhangra and Haryanvi folk dances.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

I usually don't go into record stores to buy folk music.

— Gary Moore

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

— Lonnie Donegan

My music is basically perceived as folk or softer rock.

— Shawn Colvin

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

— Theodor Adorno

You can take out the hood ... but amma keep it hood a folk

— SNOOP

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

— Jenny Eclair

“Thanne longen folk to go on pilgrimages.”

— Helen Bryan

I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.

— Lara Spencer

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

— Cass McCombs

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

— Martin Firrell

“We are horse folk, and that means more than we think it does.”

— Elizabeth Carlton

Folk music is the heart of the Indian music scene for several years.

— Tulsi Kumar

My family used to put on a small folk festival.

— Aldous Harding

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

— Roger Allam