Shawn Colvin Quotes

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

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

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

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre.

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.

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

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

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.

As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

I listen to the Avett Brothers all the time. I find their music interesting and introspective.

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

I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.

I've always played acoustically - it's how I learned. I grew up listening to Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Dylan and what have you.

I always come back to the gentler stuff like Simon & Garfunkel and the Fleet Foxes' first album - that's quite an odd one.

I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.

We had always put ballads on all of our albums.

My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.

I do write a lot of folky songs naturally.

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.

My taste is very '70s, like Garfunkel and James Taylor, so not too far from country, but not really the mainstream country that's on the radio.

I think the '60s was a great time for music, especially for rock and roll. It was the era of The Beatles, of The Stones, and then later on The Who and Zeppelin. But at one point in the '70s, it just kind of became... mellow.