Warren Zevon Quotes

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

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

I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but that's more electronic.

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.

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

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

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.

I was reared on folk music.

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

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

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.

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

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

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.

That's really always been the music that I've been in love with, always the music that I've written growing up. Even through Pentatonix, folk music has been really my heart and soul.

My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really love some of our songs, which I do. My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

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 don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.