#folk_music

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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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 didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics. ↗

— Robert Plant

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You know when I'm down to my socks it's time for business That's why they're called business socks It's business, it's business time ↗

— Flight of the Conchords

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Martin Carthy on English folk music: "I'm not interested in heritage - this stuff is alive. ↗

— Martin Carthy

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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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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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