“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.” ArtFunnySongMusicHistoryHeardMusicianMusic IsHorseMusicalFolksClassical MusicGuitaristFolk MusicInspirational MusicFunny MusicFamous MusicianFolk SongsClassic MusicHearing MusicModern MusicClassical Musicians Author:Louis Armstrong
“Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.” MenWorldMusic IsMirrorsOriginalsMusicalFolksMelodyFolk Music Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.” WayArtBodyLyingSongCultureProcessAttitudeMusic IsRelationFolksFeaturesFolk Music Author:Sam Hinton
“What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.” DifferentCoursesLevelsPeriodsNewsMusic IsFolksEntertainmentSupposed To BeBotherSignificanceVillagePassagesEntertainingRiteDifferent LevelsFolk MusicRite Of Passage Author:Billy Corgan
“Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to archive it; you want to freeze it in time in terms of your perspective on it, then move on, because folk music is that volatile and comments not only on overall human concerns but also on the specifics.” WantHumansMovingTermMaterialsLike YouPerspectiveEssentialsMusic IsConcernFolksCommentFreezeFolk MusicArchivesSpecifics Author:Paul Stookey
“Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.” RunningConsciousnessQualityIssuesMusic IsFolksRadioStreamsFolk Music Author:Mary Travers
“Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.” PeopleTryingBitsVoiceAliveGroupsMusic IsFolksBoringMinoritiesBalletFolk MusicMinority Groups Author:John Lennon
“Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.” SchoolNamesCommonMusic IsPropertyFolksMaking MoneyParksFolk MusicNational ParksSchool System Author:Utah Phillips
“Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.” PeopleStillsSpeakLanguageStreetsMusic IsEssenceFolksHip HopHipsHopsZeroFolk MusicGround Zero Author:Talib Kweli
“To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.” WayWellsPlayAchievementMusic IsLifetimeFolksMy WayFolk MusicSwedishLifetime Achievement Author:Gustav Ejstes
“Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more times a song has been passed down the generations the more brilliant and concise it becomes as every link in that chain can add something good or remove something unnecessary.” Has BeensSongGenerationsEvolutionSurvivalMusic IsAddFolksBrilliantTraditionalChainsRemoveMore TimeLinksUnnecessaryOrganismsFolk MusicSurvival Of The FittestConcise Author:John Spiers
“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.” PeopleStillsHardTodayHard WorkMusic IsFolksRebellionCropsUprisingFolk Music Author:PJ Harvey
“I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly from the soul, strictly improvisational.” SoulMusicianMusic IsPreacherFolk Music Author:Cecil Williams
“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.” PeopleMusic IsSongwritingSelectFolk Music Author:Jakob Dylan
“People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.” PeopleThinkingMusic IsPunkFolk Music Author:Avey Tare