Doc Watson 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.

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I was reared on folk music.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

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 used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

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

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

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

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

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.