Johnny Flynn Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

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.

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.

Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.

Anne Briggs is great, and I love Sandy Denny and Steeleye Span.

Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.

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

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

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

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

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.

People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back.

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.

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

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.