Roger McGuinn Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

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

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

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.

Though I always experimented with electronic music in the past, I wasn't invested in that sound. My heart has always been in folk. That's my home.

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

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

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

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.

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

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

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

I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

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

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