Roger McGuinn Quotes

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

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

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

When I was in Boston, I was doing a lot of Americana stuff - I fell in love with Ray LaMontagne, Patty Griffin, and Neil Young.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

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've been a legitimate fan of Keith Urban's for a long time and have been to a bunch of his concerts.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

Anyone who takes the craft of songwriting seriously I radiate towards. Spending time with Daryl Hall was a dream come true. I picked his brain a lot because Hall And Oats is timeless.

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

I play blues old-timey style.

I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part of the musical mainstream anymore.

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.