England Quote by Loretta Lynn

I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The…

— Lizz Wright

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and…

— Ethan Coen

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills…

— Robert E. Howard

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the…

— Imelda May

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

— Carter Burwell

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

— King Krule

When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this…

— Kate Bush

And its very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor…

— Nobuo Uematsu

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

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

— Robert Plant

It's very common in Iceland, this music-making and artistic expression by non-professionals. The brass band tradition is not as big, but there are choirs…

— Johann Johannsson

We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who…

— Glenn Miller