Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.

Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens

Answer Asked Becomes Culture Entire Folk Folk Music Grunge I Think Itself Just Language Like Movement Music Musicians Mysteries Often Packaged Process Think Trying Understand Word World

Related Quotes

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

— Ray LaMontagne

FolkFolk MusicI Think

What we're making isn't folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world community that understands cultures can relate. So people who still speak of nationalism and racism or what separates us, they are inadequate for this time. Evolution goes on.

— Eugene Hutz

CommunityFolkLanguage

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

CultureFolkFolk Music

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

— Donal Henahan

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

— Johann Sebastian Bach