Folk Music Quotes

81 Folk Music quotes by 70 unique authors

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music. — Unknown Author
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic… — Ian Anderson
The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?...We are trying… — Robert Plant
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk… — Bruce Hornsby
If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be… — Bob Dylan
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' — Pete Seeger
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for… — Alan Lomax
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional… — Wynton Marsalis
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often… — Helen Simonson
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body… — Ketch Secor
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you… — David Crosby
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. — Paul Whiteman
Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes.… — Linda Ronstadt
Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling… — George Gershwin
I came late to the genre of folk music. — Tom Morello
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny… — Tom Morello
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child — Stephen Stills
Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition. — Mary Travers

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