Quotes About Folk

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

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

Seven' is this kind of nostalgic, emotional folk song.

'Take Her Up to Monto' is a very satirical song. I don't really like people calling it a folk song because it kind of isn't. It's a bit cheeky calling it 'Take Her Up to Monto,' but the whole idea was to be very irreverent.

My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.

Not many people know, but Pahari songs are amazing.

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

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

I thought you were a folk singer.' 'No, I just need a haircut. In point of fact, I can't tell one note from another.' 'That needn't prevent you from being a folk singer.

Music is in Mississippi's DNA, whether it's the blues, country music, folk, or rock 'n' roll. It's not just a source of cultural pride, but also a strong contributor to our economy.

I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine.

I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.

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.

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

Popular culture would never have achieved such a high degree of influence had it not been for the disappearance of family culture and Folk culture. With our social revolution, there would have been no cultural revolution. Without age0segregated high schools and the disappearance of the family economy, there would have been no Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, or Katy Perry.

Cockroaches were a problem, too, and to me the people who invented Combat, the little black roach-trapping contraption, are urban folk heroes.

It was about a class system, the fact that the underclass, Oskar and Albin, always slipped off the roofs of the rich folk.

It's just so obscure to take a folk song in a different language and be a pretty well-respected English-speaking rock band and totally take a song and twist it around and have fun with it.

I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.