Neko Case Quotes

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.

That's really always been the music that I've been in love with, always the music that I've written growing up. Even through Pentatonix, folk music has been really my heart and soul.

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

This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl, so the record is book-ended with Carter Family songs.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

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

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.