Folk music Quote by Brownie McGhee

Folk is bare bones music.

— Ben Harper

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

— Michael Penn

I've always felt rock is folk music.

— Michael Penn

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

— Amos Lee

All music is the blues. All of it.

— George Carlin

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

— Barry Gibb

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

— Dusty Hill

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

Blues is a very physical music.

— Hozier

Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into…

— Richard F. Thomas

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

Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money…

— Will Sheff