Folk music Quote by Alan Lomax Download Open image “Folk Music is the map of singing.” — Alan Lomax ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folk music Folks Maps Music is Music making Singing
Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing… — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Folk has always been the mainstay of Indian music; we're very soulful people, and we like the sound of our soil. — KK Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice. — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
“The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes ... but in the everyday folds who live and die unknown, yet leave their… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own. — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses,… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more… — John Spiers Copy Share Image
I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on. — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it.… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
