#folk music

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. ↗

— Van Morrison

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You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. ↗

— Sonny Terry

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I came late to the genre of folk music. ↗

— Tom Morello

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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music. ↗

— Katey Sagal

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My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. ↗

— David Crosby

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I always thought I was singing American folk music. ↗

— Lonnie Donegan

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I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

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When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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