Clubs Quote by Dick Smothers

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

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

— Warren Zevon

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

— Stephen Stills

The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got…

— Van Morrison

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

The music scene in Michigan is really folky and bluegrass, but my parents played a lot of disco. They really liked to dance.

— Borns

I was reared on folk music.

— Rufus Wainwright

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

— Bob Dylan

I came late to the genre of folk music.

— Tom Morello

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

— Dave Davies

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

— Roger McGuinn

Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry…

— Pete Seeger