Claims Quote by Jimmy Reid

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part…

— Robert Burns

Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs…

— Jakob Dylan

“those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar”

— Jimi Hendrix

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so…

— Julie Harris

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written…

— Ladyhawke

I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so…

— John Prine

Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father…

— Pete Seeger

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard,…

— Robert Fitzgerald

I think it's a certain gift when songwriters can go about their daily lives and extract little details that no one else would notice.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it,…

— Jill Scott

I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's…

— Tift Merritt

There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all…

— Noel Gallagher