Folk music Quote by Rufus Wainwright Download Open image “I was reared on folk music.” — Rufus Wainwright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folk music Folks Music
I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs. — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music. — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were very successful… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me -… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
It's about how whenever I fall in love, I have these expectations of the experience being a perfect dream, which, of course, ruins it.… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own. — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses,… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more… — John Spiers Copy Share Image
I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on. — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it.… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
