Folk Music Quotes: top 78 famous quotes about Folk Music

Folk Music Quotes & Sayings

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I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. — Neil Diamond

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. — Ben Harper

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. — Dick Smothers

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. — Michael Storm

Turn a mountain upside down, you have a woman. Turn a woman upside down, you have a valley. Turn a valley upside down, you get folk music. — Tom Robbins

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. — Pete Seeger

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music. — James Vincent McMorrow

If Music is a Place
then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. — Vera Nazarian

In Jewish folk music, despair is disguised as the dance. And so, truth's disguise was irony. — Julian Barnes

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. — Ben Harper

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. — Mark Knopfler

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. — Johann Sebastian Bach

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 fratricide. — Marie Browne

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs. — Roger McGuinn

I always thought I was singing American folk music. — Lonnie Donegan

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart. — Paul Stookey

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. — Anne Lamott

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. — Paul Whiteman

To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists. — Justin Chon

I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything. — Gustavo Santaolalla

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing. — Alison Goldfrapp

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.. — Ani DiFranco

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 song. — Brandi Carlile

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. — John Lescroart

This machine kills fascists. — Woody Guthrie

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. — Roger Glover

Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything. — Shreya Ghoshal

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write. — Kent Haruf

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days. — Ed Droste

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.. — John Betjeman

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary. — Pete Seeger

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. — Ray Lamontagne

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context. — Rosanne Cash

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. — Sxip Shirey

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music. — John Lennon

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music. — Warren Zevon

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like ... except for Show Tunes. — Terri Windling

You know when I'm down to my socks it's time for business
That's why they're called business socks
It's business, it's business time — Flight Of The Conchords

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries - "
"So has the plague. — Karen Chance

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child. — Stephen Stills

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music. — Stephen W. Thompson

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing. — Sam Palladio

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. — Bob Dylan

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock. — Jane Siberry

Folk is bare bones music. — Ben Harper

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music ... — Lizz Wright

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. — Dolly Parton

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. — Joni Mitchell

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. — Katherine Jenkins

I was reared on folk music. — Rufus Wainwright

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both. — Dave Alvin

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly. — Trey Anastasio

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs. — Matt Dillon

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music. — Katey Sagal

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. — Dave Davies

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

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way. — Gustav Ejstes

reality has too many heads — Bob Dylan

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' — Pete Seeger

I came late to the genre of folk music. — Tom Morello

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. — Donal Henahan

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore. — Amos Lee

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

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance. — Ani DiFranco

Folk Music is the map of singing. — Alan Lomax

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. — Ani DiFranco

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on. — Martin Mull

Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music.
[Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990] — Igor Stravinsky

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music. — Bono

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. — Pete Seeger

Folk music is a bunch of fat people. — Bob Dylan

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. — Van Morrison

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. — Carlisle Floyd

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. — Bela Fleck

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is! — Michelle Shocked