Roger McGuinn Quotes

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

I guess one thing that makes my music stand out is that it is quite hard to determine what genre it is.

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

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

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.

I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

Growing up, we had folk records.

In America, music is more tightly categorized.