Folk Quotes · Page 6

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Devi Sri Prasad

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

— Richard A. Knaak

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

— Sxip Shirey

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

— Cass McCombs

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

— Johnny Flynn

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

— Big Bill Broonzy

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

— Amy Lee

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

— Ray LaMontagne

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

— Greg Graffin

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.

— Robert Gottlieb

Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk…

— Charlie Adam

I was wearing leather studded jackets, but I was playing acoustic folk music, so it was quite a weird mix.

— Nina Nesbitt

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

— Neha Bhasin

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

— Dick Smothers

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before…

— Kent Haruf

I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New…

— Ted Naifeh

The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are…

— Tracy Chapman

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music…

— Ben Harper

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban…

— Liz Phair

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some…

— Paul Weller

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman…

— Jane Leavy

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist…

— Roger McGuinn

I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the…

— Harry Belafonte

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

— Roy Harper

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

— Alasdair MacLean

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

— Oscar Isaac

I have many vivid memories of listening to the folk songs in my village.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.

— Michael Kiwanuka

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

“Folk med hemligheter ska inte skaffa sig fiender (s. 75).”

— Laini Taylor

The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.

— Hank Williams

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

— Michelle Shocked

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

— Katey Sagal

“And of a Sunday swarm the folk Under the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody,…

— Théophile Gautier

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and…

— Leslie Fiedler

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of…

— Sam Palladio

Though I always experimented with electronic music in the past, I wasn't invested in that sound. My heart has always been in…

— Domino Kirke

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

— Rokia Traore

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

— Woody Guthrie