Dan Hicks Quotes

I mainly like to do singer/songwriter kind of stuff.

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

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

I always play songs that are very based in folk music.

To be honest, the acoustic stuff's my favorite thing to do.

Gilbert Hotel' is my first all-acoustic record.

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented.

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

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.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

I play blues old-timey style.

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

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

After all, folk-fusion is my favourite genre.