Acoustic guitar Quote by Avey Tare

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

— Ani DiFranco

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

— Michelle Shocked

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

— Greg Graffin

I've always felt rock is folk music.

— Michael Penn

If folk is the music of the common people and not the intellectual elite, then that's what rock is.

— Michael Penn

My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and…

— Ani DiFranco

To me, punk rock isn't a style of music, it's something you live.

— Shavo Odadjian

Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I think there's a difference between the type of folk music that people put into the box of "folk music" and then there's the…

— Christopher Paul Stelling

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these…

— Ed Droste

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the…

— Justin Sane

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

— Billie Joe Armstrong