#folk music

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.' ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#between #came #circumstance #compelling #equals

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have. ↗

— Janis Ian

#any #artists #be humble #especially #even

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#everything #folk #folk music #i #mix

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#delta #folk #folk music #heaven #idea

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

#folk #folk music #jazz #machine #machine age

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes. ↗

— Terri Windling

#american music #any #celtic #early #except

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#back #bobby #book #collected #come

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child. ↗

— Stephen Stills

#because #child #college #college kids #folk

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#classical #crazy #elements #even #folk

Folk music is a bunch of fat people. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#fat #folk #folk music #music #people