Folk Music Quotes
Collection of 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
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
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
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
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
Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..
— John Betjeman
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When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
— Ray Lamontagne
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 businessThat'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 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
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
— Dolly Parton
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
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
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
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
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
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
Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
— Michelle Shocked