folk music, n.All

Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.

Folk music is a designation that ought to be applied to all music, for who'se ever heard a horse sing a song?

Folk music is portable music. It is about getting across a melody that will help the music stick to your ribs so it can be taken from town to town.

Folk music is mostly people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead.

Folk music is the map of singing.

Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.

Folk music's original function was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.