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That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music.
DOMINIC SUCHYTA When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, ...
TOM GLAZER I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal...
BEN HARPER Jazz is the folk music of the machine age
PAUL WHITEMAN Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
PAUL WHITEMAN Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plai...
BROWNIE MCGHEE My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
MARK KNOPFLER My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues
MARK KNOPFLER![]()
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
JOHN LYDON![]()
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
BOB DYLAN I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.
HOZIER![]()
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being ...
ROGER MCGUINN This machine kills fascists.
WOODY GUTHRIE![]()
All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song
LOUIS ARMSTRONG![]()
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the comm...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if fo...
LANGHORNE SLIM![]()
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes ou...
BONO![]()
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 The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started...
GEORGE GROVE Everywhere, there was Ukrainian Gypsy and folk music. That's just how it is there; you cannot escape...
EUGENE HUTZ There is a great similarity in some folk music in Assam and those in some parts of China. We have ro...
MANJU BORA![]()
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
KATEY SAGAL Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
MICHELLE SHOCKED I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of...
BEN HARPER![]()
The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending reall...
TREY ANASTASIO I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
JAKE EPSTEIN The idea to go for folk fusion is simple as folk music is accepted throughout the world because peop...
DIPAK SARMA Survey results found that people were listening to types of music they weren't interested in before....
MARK KOTKIN We paint with a pretty broad brush when we talk about folk music.
LARRY MEYER As we see in folk music quite often, emotion transforms what might otherwise be considered 'corny' (...
DON ELLIS![]()
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
ANNE LAMOTT Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
DICK SMOTHERS![]()
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot ...
TERRI WINDLING Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternativ...
BRAD DELSON I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fidd...
RENEE FLEMING![]()
The Ark is a great community that supports folk music. ...Ann Arbor reminded me of home. It reminded...
CATIE CURTIS I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPER![]()
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
RAY LAMONTAGNE![]()
There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT![]()
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is...
VERA NAZARIAN traditional folk music and dance in India ,specially women oriented . every folk music has a homely ...
LITYMUNSHI![]()
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
BOB DYLAN![]()
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own...
ARLO GUTHRIE![]()
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo...
IAN ANDERSON Don was a pretty good singer - he came from West Virginia where they sang a lot of country folk musi...
MAGGIE PETERSON I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's co...
LANGHORNE SLIM Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk co...
BENJAMIN BOOKER Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going.
CHARLES MUSIC We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p...
CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste.
CHARLES MUSIC![]()
I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it.
ZIGGY MARLEY I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you ...
JOE HILL![]()
Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO![]()
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmon...
ROGER MCGUINN We promise a whole day's worth of great music and a great opportunity to learn about Florida's folk ...
CAROL CORTRIGHT![]()
When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of ye...
JACKSON BROWNE I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just ev...
GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest mus...
SONNY TERRY I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a...
BENJAMIN BOOKER Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beat...
DAR WILLIAMS![]()
I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles...
ESPERANZA SPALDING![]()
That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most l...
JACKSON BROWNE![]()
I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-...
BOB DYLAN What we're making isn't folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world c...
EUGENE HUTZ (Turbo-charged folk) comes from the energy that we create. Unfortunately, folk music can be boring. ...
BRUCE ROPER![]()
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to c...
STEVE WINWOOD![]()
Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a s...
DAVID BYRNE The static’s nice. I could do without the screeching.”
“Are you kidding? That’s the mus...
PETER WATTS I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk an...
BELA FLECK I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, th...
LANDON LIBOIRON![]()
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
DOLLY PARTON![]()
I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ...
RACHEL COHN Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Ti...
GEORGE MARTIN What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest...
SONNY TERRY In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I ...
TOMMY RAMONE I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca...
P. J. HARVEY![]()
From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone ...
JIMMY PAGE I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY![]()
The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a t...
ANNE RICE I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style ...
EMMYLOU HARRIS![]()
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN So them who can't learn from a tale about critters, just ain't got the ears tuned to listen."
...
JIM KORKIS I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unle...
CARLISLE FLOYD![]()
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous ...
ERIC CLAPTON![]()
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i...
PAT METHENY![]()
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, yo...
SEANAN MCGUIRE![]()
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air th...
NEIL GAIMAN![]()
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the ...
JEANNETTE WALLS The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger...
BARRY MCGUIRE![]()
The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and...
NICK HORNBY They're kicking us out saying it's time to close
We're leaning on each other try'na beat the c...
THE SCRIPT Ever hear a song you love so much you wanna break sh*t?
JULIET SIMMS
DOMINIC SUCHYTA When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, ...
TOM GLAZER I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, cal...
BEN HARPER Jazz is the folk music of the machine age
PAUL WHITEMAN Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
PAUL WHITEMAN Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plai...
BROWNIE MCGHEE My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
MARK KNOPFLER My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues
MARK KNOPFLER
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. JOHN LYDON
Folk music is a bunch of fat people. BOB DYLAN I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.
HOZIER
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being ... ROGER MCGUINN This machine kills fascists.
WOODY GUTHRIE
All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song LOUIS ARMSTRONG
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the comm... BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if fo...
LANGHORNE SLIM
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes ou... BONO
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 The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started...
GEORGE GROVE Everywhere, there was Ukrainian Gypsy and folk music. That's just how it is there; you cannot escape...
EUGENE HUTZ There is a great similarity in some folk music in Assam and those in some parts of China. We have ro...
MANJU BORA
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. LOUIS ARMSTRONG I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
KATEY SAGAL Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
MICHELLE SHOCKED I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of...
BEN HARPER
The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending reall... TREY ANASTASIO I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
JAKE EPSTEIN The idea to go for folk fusion is simple as folk music is accepted throughout the world because peop...
DIPAK SARMA Survey results found that people were listening to types of music they weren't interested in before....
MARK KOTKIN We paint with a pretty broad brush when we talk about folk music.
LARRY MEYER As we see in folk music quite often, emotion transforms what might otherwise be considered 'corny' (...
DON ELLIS
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. ANNE LAMOTT Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
DICK SMOTHERS
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot ... TERRI WINDLING Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternativ...
BRAD DELSON I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fidd...
RENEE FLEMING
The Ark is a great community that supports folk music. ...Ann Arbor reminded me of home. It reminded... CATIE CURTIS I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
BEN HARPER
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. RAY LAMONTAGNE
There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for tre... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is... VERA NAZARIAN traditional folk music and dance in India ,specially women oriented . every folk music has a homely ...
LITYMUNSHI
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. BOB DYLAN
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own... ARLO GUTHRIE
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... IAN ANDERSON Don was a pretty good singer - he came from West Virginia where they sang a lot of country folk musi...
MAGGIE PETERSON I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's co...
LANGHORNE SLIM Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk co...
BENJAMIN BOOKER Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going.
CHARLES MUSIC We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p...
CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste.
CHARLES MUSIC
I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it. ZIGGY MARLEY I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you ...
JOE HILL
Metal rusts, music lasts forever. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmon... ROGER MCGUINN We promise a whole day's worth of great music and a great opportunity to learn about Florida's folk ...
CAROL CORTRIGHT
When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of ye... JACKSON BROWNE I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just ev...
GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest mus...
SONNY TERRY I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a...
BENJAMIN BOOKER Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beat...
DAR WILLIAMS
I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles... ESPERANZA SPALDING
That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most l... JACKSON BROWNE
I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-... BOB DYLAN What we're making isn't folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world c...
EUGENE HUTZ (Turbo-charged folk) comes from the energy that we create. Unfortunately, folk music can be boring. ...
BRUCE ROPER
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to c... STEVE WINWOOD
Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a s... DAVID BYRNE The static’s nice. I could do without the screeching.”
“Are you kidding? That’s the mus...
PETER WATTS I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk an...
BELA FLECK I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, th...
LANDON LIBOIRON
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. DOLLY PARTON
I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ... RACHEL COHN Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Ti...
GEORGE MARTIN What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest...
SONNY TERRY In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I ...
TOMMY RAMONE I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca...
P. J. HARVEY
From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone ... JIMMY PAGE I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY
The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a t... ANNE RICE I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style ...
EMMYLOU HARRIS
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN So them who can't learn from a tale about critters, just ain't got the ears tuned to listen."
...
JIM KORKIS I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unle...
CARLISLE FLOYD
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous ... ERIC CLAPTON
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i... PAT METHENY
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, yo... SEANAN MCGUIRE
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air th... NEIL GAIMAN
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the ... JEANNETTE WALLS The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger...
BARRY MCGUIRE
The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and... NICK HORNBY They're kicking us out saying it's time to close
We're leaning on each other try'na beat the c...
THE SCRIPT Ever hear a song you love so much you wanna break sh*t?
JULIET SIMMS
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