Changed Quote by Steve Forbert

When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the music. We…

— Roger McGuinn

My mother was into folk-rock when I was little, so I think of folk-rock as the norm from which everything else deviates. Of course,…

— Stephin Merritt

The thing is, I was more blues-oriented, more of a purist than in the pop world. That led me into a folk rock trio…

— Denny Laine

Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't…

— Dar Williams

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

— Alan Parsons

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it…

— Al Stewart

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

— Mary Travers

We were not folk-rock. We would scare people.

— John Densmore

We detested folk music because it was cerebral and sedate and we had no time for that. But the Byrds were OK because they…

— Ron Mael

I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form,…

— Roger McGuinn

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

— Steve Forbert

I believe that Fairport, in all its incarnations, has almost single-handedly been responsible for and has written the book on the history of the…

— Iain Matthews