Always Quote by Devi Sri Prasad

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

— H. G. Wells

I do write a lot of folky songs naturally.

— Colbie Caillat

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

— 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

My dream many years ago would've been to continue to write and record songs in record/album form for years to come, but now records…

— Will Oldham

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

— Cass McCombs

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

— Roger McGuinn

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

— Lonnie Donegan

I was reared on folk music.

— Rufus Wainwright

At one stage, I wanted to be a folk singer.

— Roger Allam

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

— Joni Mitchell

I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an acoustic guitar,…

— John Prine