Amy Ray Quotes

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

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

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

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

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

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

Growing up, we had folk records.

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

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

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.

I do write a lot of folky songs naturally.

I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

To me, country songs are simple.