Domino Kirke Quotes

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

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

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 love folk; that's a big part of my background.

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

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

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

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 do write a lot of folky songs naturally.

I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's a lot of folk and Americana there because that's just my life.

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've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine - you know, classic, real songwriters. They've been the lion's share of what I've really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.

At a time when club music has gone more electronic, I've gone the other way: organic and world music.

I don't compose rap songs or party numbers. I only compose folk.