Top 1200 Folk Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.

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

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

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

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

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

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

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

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I've gone on, it's gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now.

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

Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

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

In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything.

Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and he danced with a white lady, and music was born.

I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk.

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

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.

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

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

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

A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.

I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.

I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.

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

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.

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

I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

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

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

It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music, old-time music and bluegrass and we started a little band called the Garret Mountain Boys.

After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.

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

Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and will forever - but on the whole, it was the art of American storytelling in the kind of folk and blues lyrics that, if you scratch a little bit, there's a heartbreaking story there.

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

I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history.

You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.

Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.

Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.

The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.

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

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

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

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

Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.

When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.

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