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


Vera Nazarian


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The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.


Trey Anastasio


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Folk is bare bones music.


Ben Harper


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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.


Jackson Browne


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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.


Jackson Browne


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I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.


Renee Fleming


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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'


Ani DiFranco


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My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.


Mark Knopfler


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Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.


Paul Whiteman


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