Audience Quote by Ray Wylie Hubbard

I was a young folk singer, or wanted to be. I really wanted to be a New England folk singer, but they never would…

— Steve Young

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons.…

— Emmylou Harris

At one stage, I wanted to be a folk singer.

— Roger Allam

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

— Roger McGuinn

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

— Alan Parsons

I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got into acting.

— Karunas

I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the point of…

— Harry Belafonte

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

— Gary Burton

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

— Bob Dylan

I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an acoustic guitar,…

— John Prine

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with…

— Bonnie Raitt

I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and…

— Gavin Rossdale