Actors 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

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

— Pete Seeger

I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.

— Judith Durham

The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers in the…

— Hank Williams Jr

“So what’s the story your grandpa told you?” I leaned back against the blanket, propping my head in one hand and looking up at…

— Amy Harmon

Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

— Miles Davis

I was reared on folk music.

— Rufus Wainwright

I'm a big country fan. I remember, as a kid, when Ray Charles did the 'Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music' record. That's…

— Michael McDonald

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

— Roger McGuinn

Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine,…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like 'Simple Man' and 'Free Bird' and 'Alabama.' I wasn't prepared for how…

— Johnny Colt

I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore…

— Ray Wylie Hubbard