About Quote by Arlo Guthrie

All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.

— Tod Machover

Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was so influential.

— Donovan

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it…

— John Mellencamp

Common and I have a long history of making great music together.

— No I.D

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

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

— Leon Russell

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from…

— Kevin Ayers

With Del Shannon - and I've got to tell you this - there's nobody probably on the face of the earth that I identified…

— Dion DiMucci

I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything else. For…

— Tommy James

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing…

— Klaus Schulze

The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those kind of…

— Rory Gallagher

Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.

— Nancy Wilson