Folk Quotes · Page 7

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

— Cass McCombs

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

— Arthur Kleinman

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of…

— Maria Karnilova

'Meri Odhe Naal' is a traditional Punjabi song and our constant endeavor is to traditionally urbanize the folk sound and bring it…

— Neha Bhasin

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

— Ilaiyaraaja

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music.…

— Shane Filan

The 'crownd' is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in…

— Richard Jefferies

Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I…

— Dar Williams

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I…

— Bonnie Raitt

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

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at…

— Ted Naifeh

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

The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

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

— Avey Tare

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

— English Folk musician Martin Carthy

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

— Dave Davies

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

— Warren Zevon

From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.

— Ailyn Perez

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

— Anne Lamott

When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people.

— Jenny O

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

— Trey Anastasio

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version…

— Cat Stevens

Meghdhanush has brought the newer generation close to folk music with their personal touch of rock and they definitely rock at it.

— Tulsi Kumar

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

— Mary Travers

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

— Roger McGuinn

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be…

— Daniel Smith

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

— Roger McGuinn

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

— Bernard Cornwell

Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

“We’re landing in five minutes everyone.’ He spoke firmly, with conviction.‘ Let’s give these nice folk something to talk about.”

— Christopher Byford

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe…

— Ed Droste

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of…

— Sam Hinton

To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support…

— Justin Chon

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a…

— Vera Nazarian

When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I…

— Maggie Rogers

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

— Woody Guthrie

I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they're perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.

— Trixie Mattel