Folk Quote by Hozier

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

— Matt Dillon

Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was…

— Johnny Cash

Certain songs are almost like folk songs, which I love. I love folk music, and if you listen to 'Live Bullet,' there's 'Jody Girl,'…

— Bob Seger

Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers…

— Kate Bush

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always…

— Justin Townes Earle

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…

— Bruce Hornsby

The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and…

— J. Frank Dobie

Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues…

— Alan Freed

He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named…

— Pete Seeger

A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided,…

— Sam Hinton

We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet,…

— Mark E. Smith

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

— Big Bill Broonzy

“I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only…

— Bob Dylan

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote…

— John Lennon

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

— Terry Pratchett