I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
I love folk. I love rap.
I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.
I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.
My mum is the biggest Joni Mitchell fan, and my dad loves Neil Young.
My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.
New Orleans is gumbo. You get so man types of things... jazz, folk, Zydeco.
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.
I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
I'm a great lover of ballads.
New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of things. My mother didn't keep me away from other music. She only kept me away from rap. The closest I got to rap was D'Angelo.
I think that, in my research anyway, country music seems to be grounded in people staying true to their roots, being homegrown and being honest storytellers.
I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.
I like hip-hop and rock music.
Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.
The harmonica is a great instrument.
When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought, 'OK, I'm the banjo girl.'
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
