Air Quote by Neil Gaiman

My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played…

— Dickey Betts

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and…

— Renee Fleming

I remember doing "As Cool As I Am" and Steve Miller, the producer, saying "I really hear a drum loop here. I want to…

— Dar Williams

I was reared on folk music.

— Rufus Wainwright

My uncle Buddy MacMaster is one of the greatest fiddlers Cape Breton has ever produced, and we've produced a lot of them! His fellow…

— Natalie MacMaster

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

— Roger McGuinn

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Warren Zevon

Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

I came late to the genre of folk music.

— Tom Morello

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

— Amos Lee

I think there's a difference between the type of folk music that people put into the box of "folk music" and then there's the…

— Christopher Paul Stelling