Barry McGuire Quotes

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

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

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

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

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

I've always toured solo acoustic.

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

I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.

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

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

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

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

The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

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

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

When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of someone with an acoustic guitar who is a bit woe-is-me. I'd like to think that I'm not one of those. I'm quite a happy person.

Gilbert Hotel' is my first all-acoustic record.

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'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

I do write a lot of folky songs naturally.

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

It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs.