As a trained musician he was able to transform Taiwanese folk ditties which were previously only chanted rather than sung and give them a whole new structure and expressive power tantamount to infusing them with new life.
但從閩南語民謠保存的立場來看，由於呂泉生這樣學過西式音樂技法的音樂家，將向來只供吟唱、沒有樂曲的民謠改編，使其有了不同的結構及表現，等於給了當時已趨沒落的台灣民謠，賦予了生命。