I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Eshte e mire letersia, Varenjka, shume e mire eshte. U binda diten e trete te vizitave. Gje me peshe. Ua forcon zemren njerezve, u meson si te jetojne. C’nuk thuhet ne ato shkrime.

If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Duhet te qendrojne larg njeri-tjetri si fatkeqet ashtu dhe te varferit, keshtu nuk do te rendoheshin nga njeri-tjetri. Ju shkaktova aq shume fatkeqesi, qe s’i kishit patur kurre me pare ne jeten modeste te vetmitarit....

How can I be a folk? I’m from the suburbs you know.

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only got five miles to the gallon, floods, union hall fires, darkness...

This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight...

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

‘Strider’ I am to one fat man who lives within a day’s march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we...

I don’t really think of myself as a folk singer.

Why, you’ll be ‘changed, m’dear. We’ll just swap you for a human child who’ll make a good servant to the Band. Half Humans never work out ‘mongst the Folk. No, never do.””But–I’m half Folk too…...

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don’t write topical songs.

Naten s’kisha gjume, me mbyste pendimi, kot thone qe pendimi te lehteson.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

E po, mirupafshim! Po me mbyt trishtimi, nga merzia. Seç kam nje brenge ne shpirt, Makar Aleksejeviç. As vete s’e di arsyen. E tille dite paska qene. Mirupafshim!

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the ’70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

Lere pastaj qe ka dhe jo pak pasunare qe s’i pelqen te degjojne ankimet me ze te larte te varfanjakeve. Se, sigurisht, i shqetesojne, i bezdisin me ankesat pa fund. Po, moj shpirt, varferia kurdohere...

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger” – Billy Connolly

Po ç’pune ke ti, mor zoteri, me çizmet e mia te shqyera dhe me berrylat e mi te grisur?