Folk Music Quotes

“I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got into acting.”

“This machine kills fascists.”

“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”

“I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.”

“With 'Ta chuma,' which is a Garhwali folk song, I feel that there will be a strong connect which people will feel and they will get closer to folk music.”

“Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big.”

“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”

“I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.”

“People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history.”

“Robby had a flamenco and folk music background. I was so enamored with watching Robby's fingers crawl across the flamenco guitar strings like a crab.”

“I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.”

“I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.”

“Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.”

“If I could, I'd sing old French songs or American folk music, but I sure as hell can't do it as well as Mississippi John Hurt - no way in hell am I getting near that!”

“I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.”

“After touring the first album, we went into the studio and started making music that was influenced by all the freaky folk music we'd been listening to. Lots of Canterbury scene stuff from the 1960s and '70s. Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine, Caravan, Gong.”

“I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.”

“I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.”

“The Marathi film 'Natrang' has amazing songs. I also like and have sufi and folk music.”

“I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.”