Drake Quote by Anthony Doerr

It's music that is made to be listened to, not just heard. And it's got to be natural. Someone like Nick Drake is a…

— Jack Savoretti

One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.

— Chris Cornell

In terms of tone and style, I've always been influenced by a lot of different players. I love Nick Drake, Mike Bloomfield and Sonic…

— Adam Granduciel

“I've never even attempted to listen to Neil Young - everything I hear is pretty good. I know that one day, I'll be able…

— James Yorkston

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the…

— Langhorne Slim

I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap.…

— Langhorne Slim

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

— Mary Gauthier

In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows…

— Mary Gordon

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

— Woody Guthrie

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

— Billy Connolly

It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch - they're…

— Johnny Flynn

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd…

— Brownie McGhee