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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


#business #every #every time #folk #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


#could #couple #folk #folk music #hits

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


#appalachian #doing #emotional #fiddler #folk

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


#between #came #circumstance #compelling #equals

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


#because #classical #classical music #even #folk

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.


George Grove


#big #college #college kids #did #folk

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.


Bob Dylan


#fat #folk #folk music #music #people

The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.


Eugene Levy


#amazing #because #both #chris #doing

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


Brownie McGhee


#blues #find #folk #folk music #just

I came late to the genre of folk music.


Tom Morello


#folk #folk music #genre #i #i came






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