About Quote by Roger McGuinn

“Have you ever listened to folk music? Let's face it, a lot of folk music is all about dead sailors, mad witches, rape and…

— Marie Browne

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

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 music is a bunch of fat people.

— Bob Dylan

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

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

Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.

— Harold Arlen

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

— Mary Travers

“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness,…

— Plato

Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money…

— Will Sheff

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve…

— Billy Corgan

“Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the…

— Edward Rothstein