The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was a boy soprano. I didn't do that much cl…

- Sam Amidon

When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm just doing them bec…

- Sam Amidon

There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that…

- Sam Amidon

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

- Sam Amidon

I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only know the …

- Sam Amidon

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

- Sam Amidon

If I said who I was influenced by, it would be really weird and pretentious because it would be people who have nothing to do with what I do. From a …

- Sam Amidon

I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for…

- Sam Amidon

I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of pow…

- Sam Amidon