Black Quote by Rhiannon Giddens

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

— Mike Stoller

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

— Warren Zevon

How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like…

— Kathleen Battle

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

If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances…

— Henry Rollins

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

Folk songs, whatever else they might be, are mainly craft.

— David Means

I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, which I've…

— Bradford Cox

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

— Bob Dylan

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads…

— Alan Lomax

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

— Carlisle Floyd