#folk_music

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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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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I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

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Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. ↗

— Alan Lomax

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Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. ↗

— Dick Smothers

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He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music. ↗

— Warren Zevon

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This machine kills fascists. ↗

— Woody Guthrie

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My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. ↗

— Ben Harper

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