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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 grew up in the country surrounded by music.

— Martina McBride

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

— Roger McGuinn

I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I…

— Pete Seeger

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to…

— Anne Waldman

I actually grew up listening to country music.

— Cody Simpson

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but…

— Donovan

I grew up in South Carolina. A lot of what I remember back in the day is AM radio. When I was a kid,…

— Darius Rucker

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Bob Dylan

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