Folk Genre Quotes

I listen to the Avett Brothers all the time. I find their music interesting and introspective.

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

I aspire to be someone like Gillian Welch. What she does is play part of a group with two acoustic guitars with harmonies. She plays folk. However, there is no one that sounds like Gillian Welch. I aspire to come up with a unique sound like she has.

I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.

I loved Israeli music, Israeli folk music.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

I love vocals and what they can do, and the different layers they can create, and I really want to bring that into folk music in terms of arrangements and stuff.

It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap considered folk music. And sometimes somebody will make you understand like, "Hey, what you doin' is serious, don't play it lightly 'cause it's changin' my life."