Culture Quote by Rhiannon Giddens

Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that…

— Mary Travers

Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.

— Tulsi Kumar

Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing…

— PJ Harvey

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through…

— Brandi Carlile

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

— John Lydon

A lot of European folk music has this interesting, intriguing quality, a whole new harmonic way of thinking.

— Bear McCreary

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a…

— John Lennon

Folk has always been the mainstay of Indian music; we're very soulful people, and we like the sound of our soil.

— KK

Folk is bare bones music.

— Ben Harper

Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing…

— Sam Hinton

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