Traditional Songs Quotes

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

I remember when I was doing my first Christmas album, I thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice to find new Christmas songs?' Then I went, 'Are you crazy?' When I decorate my tree I don't want new Christmas songs, I want to hear all the familiar songs!

It started in Georgia. Everyone sings there. I mean, it's all they do. So at eight, I heard a lot of Georgian singing, which is often really complicated, with seven- or eight-part harmonies.

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.

Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.

I started singing when I was a little kid. I was about nine when we had a group with my four brothers. We sang spirituals. The old regular thing.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Where I come from, we sing poetry.

There are a whole lot of Carter Family songs.

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'

I grew up listening to dappan koothu songs and loved the fun party vibes they gave.

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

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 come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.