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- 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… — Bono
- When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Alan Lomax
- New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,… — Wynton Marsalis
- My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The… — 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… — Ketch Secor
- My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people… — David Crosby