Band Quote by David Grisman

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and…

— Renee Fleming

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

— Dick Smothers

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

— Warren Zevon

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to…

— Anne Waldman

I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore…

— Ray Wylie Hubbard

The first music I was interested in was Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, and I listened to bluegrass religiously on the radio while…

— Porter Wagoner

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music…

— George Grove

I went out on the road when I was 12 years old, playing with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers. That was the summer of…

— Marty Stuart

Don't forget, Stephen Stills and I had a band in Gainesville called the Continentals when we were 15. And, of course, you had Lynyrd…

— Don Felder

There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me every Saturday…

— Sara Watkins

In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and…

— Paul Stookey

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of…

— Shawn Colvin