Quotes About Music

I've grown up with bhangra and Haryanvi folk dances.

At one stage, I wanted to be a folk singer.

I've always loved Country, folk, and the acoustic end of music.

I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.

What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important.

I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but that's more electronic.

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.

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

Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.

There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.

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

I was reared on folk music.

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

In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.

When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought ,'OK, I'm the banjo girl.'

Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar my father gave me.

Folk songs, whatever else they might be, are mainly craft.

I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.

Personally, I cain't stand classical stuff, but I don't tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain't these folks who don't like my kind of music do the same?

I try to play the best I can every time I play. But there's just some folks that seem to draw a little bit of that extra special out of you.

Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.

Some folks expect my music to sound like my dad's.

I didn't have no college friends. All the artists the college folks were listening to were my homies. I was leaving class, literally, to record with them.

We're bringing together the country folks and the rockers.