Avi Kaplan Quotes

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

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.

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

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 don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

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 first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.

Though I always experimented with electronic music in the past, I wasn't invested in that sound. My heart has always been in folk. That's my home.

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

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

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

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

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

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

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.

The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and will forever - but on the whole, it was the art of American storytelling in the kind of folk and blues lyrics that, if you scratch a little bit, there's a heartbreaking story there.

I've been writing a lot more folky, country type stuff. One of the reasons I wanted to write in the first place was because of Darrell Scott.

I grew up listening to Dolly Parton and just loving her music.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

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

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

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