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“I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.”

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Author:John Lydon

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

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Author:Joni Mitchell

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

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Author:Van Morrison

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

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Author:Robert Plant

“Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

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

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Author:Katey Sagal

“I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.”

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Author:Pete Seeger

“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.”

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Author:Sonny Terry

“I was reared on folk music.”

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Author:Rufus Wainwright

“What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.”

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Author:Bono

“Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.”

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Author:Greg Graffin

“This machine kills fascists.”

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Book:Haus aus Erde

Source: Haus aus Erde

“This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.”

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Book:Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5

Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5

“The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.”

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Author:Robert Plant

“The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?...We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal...I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious...The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.”

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Author:Robert Plant

“Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I've gone on, it's gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now.”

“If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.”

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Book:Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews

Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews

“My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'”

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Author:Pete Seeger

“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.”

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Author:Alan Lomax

“New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born.”

“I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a link in the chain.' It's a strong chain, so rely on it. ... I believe it takes all those great songs in the past to make your song even a little bit good.”

“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.”

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Author:David Crosby

“Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.”

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Author:Paul Whiteman

“Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.'”

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Author:Linda Ronstadt

“Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.”

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Author:George Gershwin

“I came late to the genre of folk music.”

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Author:Tom Morello

“Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.”

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Author:Tom Morello

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

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Author:Brownie McGhee

“I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child”

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Author:Stephen Stills

“Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.”

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Author:Mary Travers

“Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.”

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Author:Alan Freed

“When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.”

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Author:Ian Anderson

“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.'”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.”

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Author:Matt Dillon

“There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.”

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Author:Dave Alvin

“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”

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Book:Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews

Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews

“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people”

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Author:Woody Guthrie

“Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.”

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Author:Christopher Guest

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

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Author:Warren Zevon

“I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.”

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Author:Terri Windling

“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.”

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Author:Jackson Browne

“I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.”

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Author:Edgar Meyer

“It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.”

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Author:Kurt Weill

“Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!”

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Author:Michelle Shocked

“The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.”

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Author:Barry McGuire

“I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.”

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Author:Jez Butterworth

“Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.”

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Author:John Betjeman

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