Folk Quotes · Page 8

I would love to be one of those fellows who combine formal and folk music approaches.

— Chris Thile

I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.

— Ludovico Einaudi

With 'Ta chuma,' which is a Garhwali folk song, I feel that there will be a strong connect which people will feel…

— Tulsi Kumar

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be…

— Jimmy Page

I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts…

— Chris Cornell

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

— Robin Marantz Henig

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I…

— Terri Windling

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That…

— Arlo Guthrie

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers…

— Michelle Dockery

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

I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are…

— Oscar Isaac

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

I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one…

— Johnny Marr

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

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

— Shane MacGowan

I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool.

— Mary Gauthier

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to…

— Max Casella

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

— Alan Parsons

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American…

— Ben Harper

Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.

— Maggie Rogers

India is full of varied cultures that have introduced different kinds of folk tunes to us.

— Tulsi Kumar

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

— Harvey Gantt

“Folk tror, man kan opnå det evige liv ved at motionere. Det eneste, man bliver, er forpustet.”

— Bjarne Reuter

When I was small - I grew up in a village outside of Krakow - my brothers and sisters and I would…

— Joanna Kulig

My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.

— Michael Bacon

We Brits are law abiding folk. We pride ourselves on our natural tendency to form an orderly queue rather than a scrum.

— Nick Boles

Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything.

— Shreya Ghoshal

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

— Angel Olsen

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk…

— Bono

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

— Pete Seeger

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer…

— Patty Griffin

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music…

— Pete Seeger

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem.…

— Nico Mirallegro

A lot of European folk music has this interesting, intriguing quality, a whole new harmonic way of thinking.

— Bear McCreary

Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music.

— Rupi Kaur

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

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

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

— Théophile Gautier