Folk Quotes

“I'm not an avant-garde musician. I'm a folk musician.”

“Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.”

“Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal.”

“The melodic world of my string quartets does not essentially differ from that of folk songs, only the framework is stricter.”

“Folk music is the music of the people.”

“I don't think I'm a folk singer. I'm a singer who sings folk songs.”

“Most of the music I like is close to the folk tradition, but it's not the folk tradition.”

“The trouble with being a folk singer is that you can't get a driver for your Rolls-Royce.”

“The thing about folk music is that it's a living, breathing thing.”

“The folk song is the school of good taste.”

“A folksong is a song that has been changed by many people.”

“Folk music is a living, breathing thing. It's not something that's stuck in a museum.”

“I've always been a traditionalist. I'm a folk singer.”

“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”

“I started the Folk Den project to preserve old folk songs.”

“Folk music is the original signal-to-noise ratio.”

“The folk scene was a very strange world. It was a very purist world.”