Age Quote by Adnan Sami

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

— Tulsi Kumar

Folk has always been the mainstay of Indian music; we're very soulful people, and we like the sound of our soil.

— KK

I have tried to show the influence of folk music in Bollywood, in Tamil movies, in Telugu cinema.

— Shankar Mahadevan

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.

— Mitski

Blues, rock, and soul are part of the music I make, but there are Indian influences, too.

— Shruti Haasan

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from…

— Anonymous

Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers…

— Kate Bush

I've been greatly influenced by the music of R.D. Burman and Sudhin Dasgupta, and I took it as a challenge to bring back the…

— Jeet Gannguli

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

— Ludovico Einaudi

I think it is the variety in south Indian film music that has captured the imagination of even north Indian listeners.

— Devi Sri Prasad

Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground. The songs…

— Johnny Flynn

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up…

— Norah Jones