"Modern folk music is just as good as the earlier folk music," says Hsu Chung hsien, of the Kuang Yin Recording Studio, who has more than 10 years in the music business. "The reason people feel that one generation is not as good as the last may be because today's music standards have improved overall and the folk songs do not appear as outstanding as they did in the past."
「其實，現在的民歌手並不比以往差」，冠音錄音室的徐崇憲從事這行已十多年，灌錄的國語歌曲唱片不計其數，他說：「會讓人有『一代不如一代』的感覺，可能是因為現在的音樂水準普遍提高，民歌手的表現就不像過去那麼突出。」