Folk Music Quotes

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This collection holds 128 folk music quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Rufus Wainwright, Bob Dylan and Tom Morello.

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I was reared on folk music.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

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

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

I always play songs that are very based in folk music.

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.

I usually don't go into record stores to buy folk music.

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

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

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

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

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

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

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

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.

I didn't grow up with classical music. My father was a folk music singer.

The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

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

I would love to be one of those fellows who combine formal and folk music approaches.

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

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

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

The Marathi film 'Natrang' has amazing songs. I also like and have sufi and folk music.

I feel just as passionately about experimental electronic music as I do about folk music.

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

I have tried to show the influence of folk music in Bollywood, in Tamil movies, in Telugu cinema.

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

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

I was wearing leather studded jackets, but I was playing acoustic folk music, so it was quite a weird mix.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything.

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

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

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