Ancient Quote by Pete Seeger

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

I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds…

— Pete Seeger

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

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

— Amos Lee

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

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.

— Mitski

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

— Angel Olsen

“I had grown up on Folkway's Nonesuch field recordings and the stuff Lomax had done for the Library of Congress, but the production values…

— David Byrne

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

— Pete Seeger

Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM, which was…

— Alasdair MacLean

In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But…

— Pete Seeger

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

— Neha Bhasin