Bare Quote by Ben Harper

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

— Amos Lee

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

— Michael Penn

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

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

— Bob Dylan

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

I've always felt rock is folk music.

— Michael Penn

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

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio…

— Mary Travers

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

Folk Music is the map of singing.

— Alan Lomax

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

— Dave Alvin

Folk songs, whatever else they might be, are mainly craft.

— David Means