Henry Rollins Quotes

I listen to a variety of music. I like everything from old Arabic music to Portuguese fados.

Certain songs are almost like folk songs, which I love. I love folk music, and if you listen to 'Live Bullet,' there's 'Jody Girl,' which is almost a folk song, and I've always loved folk music. Quiet music, I don't try to do that with - I try to set a mood. But most of the stuff I do enjoy recording is up-tempo, and yes, I try to recreate that.

We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

I'm an old fan of the Negro spirituals.

I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.

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

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

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

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

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.

I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.