Folks Quote by Brownie McGhee

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

— Roger McGuinn

Folk singers are the unsung heroes. They keep our tradition and culture alive but don't expect anything in return.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.

— Ray LaMontagne

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

— Bob Dylan

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

— Florence Welch

We would turn everything into songs in those days.

— Arlo Guthrie

Folk is bare bones music.

— Ben Harper

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

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

— Dan Fogelberg

Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby…

— Pete Seeger

Folk Music is the map of singing.

— Alan Lomax

I've always dreamt of doing an entire record just on folk music.

— Devi Sri Prasad